Amélie Gaudin
Investigates how domestication and breeding altered crop root traits and rhizosphere recruitment, toward root ideotypes that harness beneficial soil biology.
The record
- Standing
- active practice
- Based
- University of California, Davis · United States
- Focus area
- Root-Microbiome Breeding
- Works on
- root ideotypes, domestication effects, rhizosphere recruitment, agroecology, cropping system resilience.
Standing is this studio’s placement of the work, not a ranking of the person, and it is the one line here that is a judgement rather than a cited fact.
The work
Professor of agroecology in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis and chair of the Horticulture and Agronomy Graduate Group, with a faculty scientist appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her lab compares modern maize and tomato with wild relatives and landraces to understand lost rhizosphere functions, and studies cover crops, livestock integration, and organic carbon inputs in California orchard and row-crop systems.
Stated precisely, because the shorter version overstates it: the lab characterises root and rhizosphere traits and informs breeding programmes. It does not release commercial varieties.
Where to read them
- Amélie Gaudin — lab or personal site
- Schmidt, Bowles & Gaudin (2016) Using ancient traits to convert soil health into crop yield
- Schmidt et al. (2019) agricultural management and plant selection affect rhizosphere microbial structure and N cycling, Microbiome
- Brisson et al. maize domestication and rhizosphere recruitment
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