A BSc student, Hans, from BIOTECH has joined our group for his thesis work. He is growing 50 African genotypes of rice hybrids in soil culture with the aim of measuring leaf gas film thickness before and after a period of complete submergence.

Elisa Pellegrini is serving as guest editor on PLANTS for a special issue on "Plant-soil interactions in wetlands and flooded environments" and we have contributed with a methods paper to help plant biologists to visualize or quantify ROL

After a slow start with multiple issues caused by the pandemic, our "Climate-smart African rice" project funded by Danida is now making excellent progess.

Elisa's prestigious Marie-Curie postdoc fellowship has now come to an end and she has now returned to her home university in Northern Italy - we wish her ALL THE BEST for the future!

Max Stecher has now graduated with a MSc degree form the EnvEuro programme. Max has conducted a GIS-based study where he extracted climatic data and soil characteristics from more than 10,000 worldwide occurrences of wild rice.