Welcome to RhizoSensing Lab

Understanding root-soil interactions for resilient agriculture.

The RhizoSensing laboratory investigates how plant roots perceive and adapt to challenging soil environments including soil compaction, drought, nutrient limitation and heterogeneous soil conditions.

Research Highlights

• Nature (2026): Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction
• Nature (2025): Single-cell transcriptomics reveal how root tissues adapt to soil stress
• PNAS (2022): Ethylene inhibits rice root elongation in compacted soil via ABA- and auxin-mediated mechanisms
• Science (2022): Hydraulic flux-responsive hormone redistribution determines root branching
• Science (2021): Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion

Research Areas

• Soil compaction and root adaptation
• Root hormone signalling
• Root-soil interactions
• Rhizosphere biology
• Single-cell root transcriptomics
• Root sensing technologies

Join Us

We welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and collaborators interested in root biology, soil science and sustainable agriculture.