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 - 2:00)

Download a list of posters here:

Afternoon sessions

Keynote address (14:00 - 15:00; Salon B & C)

Etienne Yergeau: Understanding and engineering the rhizosphere microbiome

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.

Author present on Monday

Author present on Tuesday

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