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Professor Dr. Mutez Ahmed, Technical University of Munich, Germany, presents "The hidden half of plant water relations: root-soil interactions impacting plant response to drought".
Mutez Ahmed received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Agricultural Engineering) from Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Khartoum and PhD (summa cum laude) from University of Göttingen, Germany. He was an Assistant Professor of Soil-Plant-Environment Interactions at the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis from 2021-2023. As of February 2023, he is a Professor of Root-Soil Interaction at the School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich. The primary objective of his research is to understand the basis of crop adaptation to water-limited environment. He is particularly interested in identifying roots and rhizosphere traits that improve the acquisition of resources from soil.
Host: Siobhan Brady (sbrady@ucdavis.edu)