‼️What if #grasslands are storing far more #carbon than we think? #Subtropical grasslands shows that most #biomass lies #belowground - global models may be seriously underestimating their #carbonstorage potential ‼️🌾
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📢What can #root #architecture tell us about fine roots? Quite a lot! The structure of the whole root system helps explain variation in fine-root traits and these links differ between #taprooted and #adventitious rooted plants. ▶️ 1url.cz/rewe0
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Rhizome senescence: Throwing away to survive New research by Gabriela Santos da Silva from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The photo above is of a cross-section of the old segment of a Rumex alpinus rhizome showing p…

📢Sometimes survival means letting go. In #clonal plants, old #rhizome segments can be sealed off and shed while younger parts stay functional. A fascinating rhizome #senescence in Rumex alpinus.
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What type of organ? Commentary by F. Curtis Lubbe from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The image above features different categories of belowground storage organs nestled within one…

What type of organ is it? 🥕🌱🪴 #Belowground #plant organs can store #resources, support #perennation, and enable #clonal growth. A helpful #guide to bulbs, #rhizomes, #tubers, #stolons, and more ▶️ 1url.cz/ReQE8
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If you’d like to watch a colourful video from our amazing Oxalis collection 🌸🌼🪷, head over to the blog post here
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Beyond earthworms: Can smaller soil animals help sequester carbon in soil? New research by Gerrit Angst from the Institute of Soil Biology & Biogeochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The photo above shows a springtail attempting to jump (photo by Frank Ashwood…

Beyond #earthworms: Can smaller ##soil animals help sequester #carbon in soil?
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#Drylands may look sparse aboveground, but the real strategy is #belowground. Across Southwest #Asia, #clonality doesn’t disappear with #aridity It peaks in the driest sites (again in #wetlands) Yes, #rhizomes are in the #desert! 🌱 1url.cz/5eKSZ #GoBelowground #ExFuMo

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Across a long #elevational #gradient, #bamboo has high #shoot density low down, bigger shoot #biomass up high. #Hormones shift with altitude and fungal community composition aligns with hormone/#trait patterns.
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Survival without photosynthesis: physiological characterization of long-lived albino beech (Fagus sylvatica) Abstract. Albinism is typically lethal in autotrophic plants due to the absence of photosynthetic pigments and functioning chloroplasts. Yet, rare exceptio

A research team including our botanists has drawn attention to a rare albino beech from the Moravian Karst. The tree lacks chlorophyll and, despite this, has been growing for about 30 years. Researchers investigated where it gets the sugars it needs to survive. Read more
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Litter manipulation alters the belowground bud bank and aboveground shoot density in a temperate grassland New research by Jianqiang Qian, from Henan Agricultural University, China. The pictures above show some of the buds found in the temperate grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China. Photos by Jianqiang Q…

🌾🍂Removing #litter boosts belowground #bud banks + #shoot density, while litter buildup limits new shoots. #Bunchgrasses respond strongly, #rhizomatous grasses less. #Management is to avoid litter accumulation
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🙌FunSem IV is behind us — long live FunSem V! 👑The 4th edition of the Functional Ecology Seminar was full of interesting talks and inspiring discussions. See you again next year! 🌱 @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
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Try harder! How young clonal herbs rebuild after disturbance New research by Jana Martínková from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Photo by Jana Martínková. When a perennial herb germinates, it enters th…

Try harder! 🏋️‍♀️🪻How young clonal herbs rebuild after disturbance
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How old do herbs live? New research by Jitka Klimešová, from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The picture above portrays one of the ways to determine the age of living parts of a clonal plant: fi…

How old do herbs live? For #clonal plants, it’s tricky. An individual can be thousands of years old even if their organs are only a few years old. How to #age clonal plants reliably? Read ▶️ 1url.cz/4Jy2x #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #rhizome #ramet #mutation @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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📢 Root exudates: invisible, fast-changing chemical signals shaping microbes, neighbors and soil. 🦠🌱
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The year 2025 for ExFuMo in review Commentary by Jitka Klimešová, from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The illustration above is by F. Curtis Lubbe. Now it is the time for reflecting on the p…

#ExFuMo in 2025🎯 Review: new insights into #rhizome investment & #ontogeny, the #Belowground #Persistence Types” framework, the Plant Bodies book, and hands-on belowground training #IAVS #workshop + #GoBelowground course)
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Calling researchers working on plant belowground - #bud banks, #storage, #rhizome, #anatomy, #clonality to join our #IAVS2026 Special Session-The Hidden Half: emerging questions in belowground #functional #ecology in #Gijón 22–26 Jun▶️ 1url.cz/OJ8fM #GoBelowground #IAVS @czechacademy.bsky.social

Heading to #IAVS2026 in #Gijón? Curious about plant belowground? Join the #Belowground #Workshop! Intro + hands-on field digging in JUN 21. Free for attendees, max 20 participants. Sign up via the conference site! ▶️ 1url.cz/OJ8fM #IAVS #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality @ibotcz.bsky.social

Go Belowground! 2026 The Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences organize the 8th edition of PhD course of functional ecology „Go belowground!“ 1…

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Season’s greetings from our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/PJ6z5 Thank you to everyone who has read, shared, or contributed this year!🩷This illustration of buds on belowground storage organs is available with other materials here▶️ 1url.cz/FJ6z9
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Principal component analysis of functional traits (mean values per species and age) of clonal and nonclonal species.

An effect of biomass removal on functional traits of clonal and non-clonal herbs during establishment

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The locality of Skaar Ridge in the Central Transantarctic Mountains. It is at 2200 m, on top of a mountain that rises above the Antarctic icesheet, photo by Rudolph Serbet.

Transverse sections of a young Glossopteridale root (R) with its typical structure with wedges of wood producing a sucker shoot (S) with a conspicuous pith and “normal” wood cylinder. A later stage when they are separated but the two axes are still englobed within the same bark tissues (right). Scale bars = 200 µm.

Already #ancient antarctic #tree showed a clever survival trick! Root sprouting - new stems popping up from the roots after damage. These #Permian forests regenered from belowground and from roots! ▶️ 1url.cz/MJY2G
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