• Dundee Root Medal Lecture and Workshop

    The 2024 Dundee Medal Lecture was given by Dr Amelia Henry on "Breeding crops for marginal conditions, with emphasis on roots" on November 6th as an online event. 

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  • New ISRR president and executive secretary

    At the 12th ISRR meeting 2024 the president, Timothy George, was elected as well as the executive secretary, Hannah Schneider. 

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  • ISRR lifetime award 2024 for Peter Gregory.

    Peter Gregory, former president of the ISRR, was awared with the lifetime award at the 12th international Symposium held in Leipzig 2-7 June 2024. 

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  • ISRR12

    The 12th Symposium of the ISRR Roots [& Roads] to a sustainable future was held at UFZ | Leipziger KUBUS from 2 to 7 June 2024. 

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  • Welcome to the International Society of Root Research

    The Society’s aim is to promote cooperation and communication between root researchers around the world.

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  • Join the ISRR

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What is the ISRR?

Panel discussion with keynote speakers during the ISRR12 conference

The Society’s aim is to promote cooperation and communication between root researchers around the world. Hopefully you will join us in this endeavour.
The main activity of the International Society of Root Research is to hold regular scientific meetings at which the latest root research can be presented. Our meetings in Scotland,  Australia, and Israel each attracted over 300 participants on site. The ISRR10 was also featured on twitter  and youtube. The ISRR1, organized by University of Missouri (USA), was held as an online conference in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest symposium, ISRR12 was held in Leipzig Germany in 2024.

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Awards and prices of the ISRR

Peter Gregory recieving the lifetime award during the ISRR12 conference

In 2015 the Lifetime Award was initiated prize; presented to Margaret McCully (2015), Hans Lambers (2018), Wendy Silk (2021), and Peter Gregory (2024) for their significant contributions to root research.

Since 2015 the Dundee Root Medal Lecture is held as onsite or online event  prize. Jonathan Lynch (2015), Peter Gregory (2016), Michelle Watt (2017), Liam Dolan (2018), Hans Lambers (2019), Doris Vetterlein (2020), Jianbo Shen (2021), Malcolm Bennett (2022), Philip White (in memoriam, 2023), and Amelia Henry (2024).

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Communication activities

Since beginning of 2017 we publish a roughly quarterly newsletter summarizing information about the upcoming ISRR meetings, featured articles from ISRR members, intersting new publications, and more.

In our news section we also frequently update you on recent developments including open positions.  News can be found here.

ISRR activities are visible on Twitter , LinkedIN, and Bluesky (@rootscientists.bsky.social). 

Since the ISRR9 meeting regular student ambassador programs are taking place accompanying ISRR symposia. The last one, for ISRR11, has prepared and published a conference report "Root biology never sleeps".

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