Author present on Tuesday
Author present on Monday
Tuesday July 9, 2019
Morning sessions
Keynote address (8:30 - 9:30; Salon B & C)
Yakov Kuzyakov: Microbial Hotspots & Hot Moments in the Rhizosphere
Poster pitches (9:30 - 10:00; Salon B & C)
Health break (10:00 - 10:30)
Parallel sessions (10:30 - 12:30)
7. Climate change, abiotic stress in the rhizosphere (Gallery A)
Chairs: Louise Nelson
10:30 - 11:00 Microbe-to-plant signals: A way to develop climate change resistant
agriculture
D. Smith
11:00 - 11:15 Developing a trait-based framework for predicting microbial response to
extreme climate events
O. Nicolitch
11:15 - 11:30 Pseudomonas sp. strains mrbp4 and mrbp13 isolated from maize
rhizosphere soil, extenuates drought stress in inoculated maize
(zea mays L.) plants
O.B. Ojuederie
11:30 - 11:45 Response of the wheat microbiome to three years of rainfall manipulations
H. Azarbad
11:45 - 12:00 The effect of strigolactones on the microbiome of rice
B. Kim
12:00 - 12:15 The role of arbuscular mycorrhiza in adaptation to abiotic stress in wheat
S. Ravnskov
12:15 - 12:30 Microbial community impacts plant performance based on drought history
J. Munoz-Ucros
8. Carbon dynamics in the rhizosphere (Gallery B)
Chairs: Bobbi Helgason & Jemaneh Habtewold
10:30 - 10:45 Hot or not? Effect of rhizosphere hotspots on total soil respiration
M. Holz
10:45 - 11:00 Impact of root hairs and temperature on microbial carbon utilization and
energy production in the rhizosphere
X. Zhang
11:00 - 11:15 Carbon and nitrogen cycling in the rhizospheres of different grassland
species
A. Leptin
11:15 - 11:30 Coordination of soil microbes with root functional traits and implications for
soil respiration in riparian agroecosystems
K.A. Borden
11:30 - 11:45 Monitoring spatial and temporal carbon dynamics in nodulated roots by
co-registration of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission
Tomography
R. Koller
11:45 - 12:00 NanoSIMS: Opportunities to study carbon and nitrogen transformation
and cycling in plant-microbial-soil systems
X.H. He
9. Rhizosphere processes for sustainable agriculture (Gallery C)
Chair: Melissa Arcand
10:30 - 11:00 Functional rhizomicrobiome: Role of benign below-ground microbes in
modulating above-ground plant fitness and survival
H. Bais
11:00 - 11:15 Does the genotype of wheat play a role in soil structural dynamics?
S. Schmidt
11:15 - 11:30 Bacterial microbiomes and plant genotypes: what drives phenotypic
variation among canola lines?
S.D. Mamet
11:30 - 11:45 Root-associated microbiome of maize genotypes with contrasting
phosphorus use efficiency
E.A. Gomes
11:45 - 12:00 The rhizomicrobiome of Sorghum: Impact on plant growth and stress
tolerance
E.E. Kuramae
12:00 - 12:15 Two distinct gene-coexpression networks, mycorrhizal module and
phosphate-starvation module, are independently regulated in the field
T. Ezawa
Technical session (10:30 - 11:20)
PreSens Precision Sensing GmbH
“Illuminate the root-soil interface: Non-invasive imaging of O2, pH and CO2 in soil science"
Lunch, Poster & exhibit viewing, and Campus tours (12:30 - 14:00)
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Afternoon sessions
Keynote address (14:00 - 15:00; Salon B & C)
Etienne Yergeau: Understanding and engineering the rhizosphere microbiome
Parallel sessions (15:15 - 16:45)
10. Climate change, abiotic stress in the rhizosphere (Gallery A)
Chairs: Louise Nelson & Don Smith
15:15 - 15:30 Disentangling the role of root traits in the rhizosphere communication
network and their response to climate change
A. Williams
15:30 - 15:45 Responses of tree interactions to climate change and invasive species
J. Simon
15:45 - 16:00 Fine root carbon exudation and morphology effects in different nitrogen
sources and air humidity treatments
M. Sell
16:00 - 16:15 Rhizosphere legacy: amelioration of micro-biophysical properties of
compacted soil
B.S. Razavi
16:15 - 16:30 Plasticity as the key ability of roots for adaptation to various types of water
stresses in rice plants
A. Yamauchi
16:30 - 16:45 Role of root plasticity on response to soil compaction
J. Correa
11. Negative soil-plant-microbe interactions: Pests and pathogens (Gallery B)
Chair: Lori Phillips
15:15 - 15:30 Unraveling the mechanism behind plant and beneficial microbes
interaction leading to disease suppressione
K.H. Hooshmand
15:30 - 15:45 Possible role of bacterial communities in modulating abundance of
common scab pathogen in rhizosphere and geocaulosphere of potatos
C. Goyer
15:45 - 16:00 Root rot alters the structure of the pea root and rhizosphere microbiomes
Z. Hossain
16:00 - 16:15 Developing beneficial rhizosphere interactions to suppress above ground
insect pests
A. Gaudin
16:15 - 16:30 Soil community shaped by long-term organic amendments could alleviate
aboveground herbivory damage via enhancing rice plant tolerance and
resistance
M. Liu
16:30 - 16:45 The potato common scab-inducing pathogen Streptomyces scabies
degrades suberin, a relcacitrant plant biopolymer
C. Beaulieu
12. Amendments and commercial inoculants (Gallery C)
Chair: Anton Hartmann
15:15 - 15:30 Salinity stress tolerance of ‘Meyer’ lemon trees improved by a consortium
of four arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Rhizophagus intraradices,
Funneliformis mosseae, Claroideoglomus etunicatum, Glomus
aggregatum)
J. Racsko
15:30 - 15:45 Urban agriculture with an emphasis on soil health, mycorrhizal fungi and
commercial mycorrhizal inoculants
M. Salomon
15:45 - 16:00 Soil amendments affect mycorrhizal colonization, root nodulation and dry
matter accumulation in cowpea
I.M. Uzoh
16:00 - 16:15 The induction of nitrate uptake in maize plants is counteracted by
Azospirillum brasilense inoculation
Y. Pii
16:15 - 16:30 Protist introduction enhances plant growth by reshaping the rhizosphere
microbiome
N. Amacker
16:30 - 16:45 Accumulation of mineral elements in the rhizosphere and chickpea leaves:
response to phosphorus and rhizobium inoculation
J.B. Ogola
Poster session, exhibits, and drinks (16:45 - 18:00)
Gala Dinner (19:00 - 23:30)
The conference Gala Dinner is in Centennial Hall at TCU place. The dinner will be followed by an introduction of the Student Travel Award recipients and entertainment from local jazz band Heidi Munroe & Soul Sensation.
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