Root-Benefit Cost Action

YouTube video by Root-Benefit European COST ACTION Eight Webinar Root-Benefit COST ACTION WG2 (Part 1): Joanna Banasiak (ICHB PAN, Poland)

📢 For those who missed the Eight webinar of WG2 Root-Benefit!! Here is the amazing talk by Dr. Joanna Banasiak from Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, PAS Poznan, Poland at ICHB PAN, check the link!
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📢 Do not miss our New ROOT-BENEFIT Webinar!! Next Friday January 30th!!!

We will have the pleasure of having two excellent speakers:

- Dr. Joanna Banasiak (ICHB, Poland)

- Dr. Benoit Lefebvre (INRAE, France)

Join us: conecta.csic.es/rooms/raf-k1...

#plantmicrobe #rootbenefit

📢 Call for participants: Workshop “Scientific Communication in Practice”, Join us in Larissa, Greece, 4–6.3.26 for a hands-on Work Task meeting to co-create high-impact dissemination tools with science communication experts, video producers, and illustrators/animators
🗓️Apply now!
🔗 shorturl.at/BEu5g

🎄 Kids & science! ROOT-BENEFIT COST Action invites children to draw how they imagine soil & microorganisms.

Send creations to rafael.morcillo@csic.es
and join our Christmas outreach fun! 🧑‍🎄🎄🔬🦠

📢 New review out!
We are pleased to share a new review authored by members of WG2 of our ROOT-BENEFIT COST Action. This review synthesizes current knowledge on the molecular pathways underlying major beneficial root-microbe associations!!
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New Root-Benefit!!
Next Friday!!

We will have the pleasure of having two excellent speakers:
- Dr. Margarida Santana (CE3CResearch, Portugal).
- Dr. Adam Ossowicki (@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social, Spain)
#plantmicrobe #costaction #rootbenefit

🎉 Do not miss our first Webinar of the second series of WG2 of the Root-Profit COST Action!!

YouTube video by Root-Benefit European COST ACTION Sixth Webinar Root-Benefit COST ACTION WG2 (Part 2): Dr. Olga Lastovesky (University College Dublin)

Had a great time presenting at the latest ROOT-BENEFIT COST Action WG2 webinar youtu.be/NqJJvwWcLOI highlighting our research on #AMF and their endobacteria #MInt @rootbenefit.bsky.social

YouTube video by Root-Benefit European COST ACTION Sixth Webinar Root-Benefit COST ACTION WG2 (Part 2): Dr. Olga Lastovesky (University College Dublin)

🎥 Couldn’t join our last WG2 webinar? Catch up now! Dr. Olga Lastovetsky @OLastovetsky reveals how fungal–bacterial partnerships influence plant health and ecosystem resilience!
#simbiosis #AMF #rootbenefit

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📢 It is tomorrow!!!
The first webinar in our second WG2 series!!
We will have the pleasure of having two excellent speakers:
- Prof. Andrea Genre (University of Turin, Italy).
- Dr. Olga Lastovetsky (University College Dublin, Ireland)
#costaction
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WG2 seminars Conecta es la solución de integración del CSIC para conferencias web, diseñada para ofrecer una experiencia fluida, interactiva y de alto rendimiento.

Root-Benefit WG2 Webinar Series is BACK! 📢

Get ready for the next academic year with top experts in plant-microbe interactions and sustainable agriculture. We're kicking off in October 2025!

🔗 Link to the Seminar Room: conecta.csic.es/rooms/raf-k1...

DigAgro 2025
Tulln, Austria | December 1–2.

Poster presentation submission deadline: Sept 30
Registration is still open

www.digagro2025.com @rootbenefit.bsky.social @fairagro.bsky.social

Spotlight on our most recent intern, Eva Fruzsina Felegyhazi (shown here with Dr. Zahid) from Eötvös Loránd University and with grateful support from @rootbenefit.bsky.social– Eva has been learning about DNA sequencing for a collaborative project. As we say in Scotland, Haste Ye Back!

Happy International Microorganism Day to everyone celebrating it around the world! At Root-Benefit Cost Action, we strongly believe in the importance of microorganisms in improving our agriculture and our lives!
#imd2025 #microorganism #Agriculture

📣 NEW Webinar of WG2 – Root‑Benefit COST Action!!! Luisa Lanfranco (University of Turin, Italy) explores the fascinating world of molecular dialogue between plants and fungi, highlighting the role of small RNAs in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.

YouTube video by Root-Benefit European COST ACTION Fifth Webinar Root-Benefit COST ACTION WG2 (Part 1): Daniel Pérez Mendoza (EEZ-Granada, Spain)

🌱 Excited to share the Fifth Webinar of WG2 – Root‑Benefit COST Action (Part 1) featuring Daniel Pérez Mendoza (EEZ CSIC, Spain)! Dive into the molecular mechanisms of Cyclic diguanylate signalling in Plant-Microbre Interactions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAm_...

Join us!

WG2 seminars Conecta es la solución de integración del CSIC para conferencias web, disenada para ofrecer una experiencia fluida, interactiva y de alto rendimiento.

📢 New Root-Benefit WG2 Webinar!!
Do not miss the opportunity to attend the talk by Prof Luisa Lanfranco (University of Turin) and Dr Daniel Perez Mendoza @dpmendoza23 (Zaidín Experimental Station). Next July 25th, 12h00 (CET)
Link here: conecta.csic.es/rooms/raf-k1...

📢 Are you passionate about plants and eager to make a real impact on sustainable farming and food security?
Join the Master’s Program in Plant Biology for Sustainable Agriculture at @itqbnova.bsky.social ! 🌱🎓
More details here: www.itqb.unl.pt/education/ma...

🎥 www.youtube.com/shorts/MVryF...

YouTube video by Root-Benefit European COST ACTION Fourth Webinar Root-Benefit COST ACTION WG2 (Part 2): Zigmunds Orlovskis (Latvian BRC & Univ Latvia)

🌱 Check out our last WG2 Webinar!
Zigmunds Orlovskis's lab explores how systemic plant signals interact with beneficial microbiota to boost plant immunity 🌿🦠

🎥 Watch the full webinar here 👉 youtu.be/yhWDeztD7Zo

YouTube video by Root-Benefit European COST ACTION Fourth Webinar Root-Benefit COST ACTION WG2 (Part 2): Zigmunds Orlovskis (Latvian BRC & Univ Latvia)

🌱 Check out our last WG2 Webinar!
Zigmunds Orlovskis's lab explores how systemic plant signals interact with beneficial microbiota to boost plant immunity 🌿🦠

🎥 Watch the full webinar here 👉 youtu.be/yhWDeztD7Zo

https://www.root-benefit.eu/deadline-for-submitting-applications-is-june-22nd/

📢Do not miss the opportunity to apply for a Short-Term Scientific Mission and share knowledge with other labs working on Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interactions!!

Deadline is 22nd June!!!

More information here: www.root-benefit.eu/deadline-for...

Parabéns a Inês Romão, Joana Gomes and Daniel Silva! Really good job!

We want also to extend our gratitude to
@itqbnova.bsky.social GREEN-IT research unit colleagues, Dr. Juan Antonio López-Raez from @eezcsic.bsky.social, @sefin-esp.bsky.social and @rootbenefit.bsky.social for their support!

We are pleased to share our Fourth WG2 webinar (Part 1) by Dr. Javier Sánchez Martín from University of Salamanca (Spain)

Discover how Trichoderma functions as both biocontrol agent and biostimulant to enhance crop performance!

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We are happy to announce the upcoming DigAgro 2025 conference (Tulln, Austria) from December 1–2.

DigAgro 2025 is a newly launched conference aimed at bringing together various aspects of digitalization in agroecology and crop production. More info: www.digagro2025.com

📢 Correction!!
Next Friday (May 30th) WG2 Root-Benefit Webinar will be delivered at 12:00 CET.
Do not miss the opportunity to attend the talks by Dr. Javier Sánchez Martín (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) and Dr. Zigmunds Orlovskis (Latvian Biomedical Research)

Very happy to speak about biosafety, meet with colleagues and friends, and participate in the last @rootbenefit.bsky.social general meeting in ZALF (Müncheberg). This Cost Action is growing and developing awesomely! #dissemination #plantmicrobeinteractions #microbialdiversity
@itqbnova.bsky.social

📢 The next Root-Benefit WG2 webinar is here! Don't miss the opportunity to attend the talks this Friday (May 30) by Dr. Javier Sánchez Martín (University of Salamanca, Spain) and Dr. Zigmunds Orlovskis (University of Latvia)