If you want to read more about the system and its capabilities, check our recently published paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Viticulture in the dessert. measuring the gas exchange of Shiraz vines grown in the Negev desert and irrigated with saline water. bidrBGU Shimon Rachmilevitch Lab

Congratulation to our former lab member, Sophie Obersteiner, for graduating with her MSc cum laude. Sophie, you made us all very proud!

Some people think that research is a piece of cake but in our lab it is a piece of cake *and* coffee

#Plant #Root #Desert #Water #Stress our published papers in 5 words.

Dew water-uptake pathways in Negev desert plants, a new publication by Amber Hill, lab alumni: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… This paper is a continuation of our work from 2015: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

Petar presented today a part of his Ph.D. work at the International Symposium on Mineral Nutrition of Fruit Crops- ortra.com/events/mnutrit… He gave a talk about: "Night brought to light" - Daily calcium homeostasis in fruits during stress. Great work, Petar! keep it up

Strontium as a Tracer for Calcium: Uptake, Transport and Partitioning Within Tomato Plants Check out Petar's new paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We have a new publication that might interest you... "A novel approach for long-term spectral monitoring of desert shrubs affected by an oil spill" doi.org/10.1016/j.envp…

First day of stress indicators course. this year in our experimental vineyards bidrBGU

#geodiversity impacts plant structure and #biodiversity in semi-arid region. Our latest publication from the LTER park Shaked . nature.com/articles/s4159…

Root of the matter project final experiment in Yair R&D station. Planting bell pepper plants. Well done Kaining et al.!

Harvest day. We harvested from one of our rootstocks which early the ripening of the Syrah grapes

Two weeks into to 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 field study in the Arava ->

Too much and not enough | Nature Sustainability nature.com/articles/s4189…

Harvest finshed

Starting another day in the lab

Harvesting roots- team work bidrBGU

it is difficult to decide which was better, Aviad Perry presentation, or the Samosa that Shikha verma made

Today we experimented with coordinated jumping. We had an average of 64% success rate. One observation (Fig. 1) showed 92.3% success but unfortunately, this was not reproduced.