Researcher
Kathy Steppe
- Disciplines:Ecophysiology and ecomorphology, Other biological sciences not elsewhere classified, Soil ecology
Affiliations
- Department of Plants and Crops (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2018 → Today - Department of Applied ecology and environmental biology (Department)
Responsible
From1 Apr 2014 → 31 Dec 2017 - Department of Applied ecology and environmental biology (Department)
Member
From1 Apr 2014 → 31 Dec 2017 - Department of Applied ecology and environmental biology (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2000 → 31 Dec 2017
Projects
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- Unraveling the pathways of radial turgor-driven water flow in wheat stems during carbohydrate mobilization by diffusion MRI and mechanistic modellingFrom1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Electrical resistivity tomography to improve the accuracy of transpiration measurements in urban treesFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Impact of drought on understorey communities in fragmented temperate forests in EuropeFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Weed Management (GOM) in fruit growing: from black strip to responsible green stripFrom1 Mar 2022 → TodayFunding: IWT / VLAIO - Agricultural research
- Central African Network of Observatories of troPIcal tree and forest functioningFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO EOS
- Plantjacking: how do vascular pathogens avoid starvation in the xylem?From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Electrical resistivity tomography to improve the accuracy of transpiration measurements in urban treesFrom1 Nov 2021 → 31 Oct 2022Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Foliar water uptake as a mitigating strategy for drought under elevated CO2 concentrations in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)From1 Nov 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Medical imaging to unravel the link between sugar, auxin and organ abscission in sweet pepperFrom1 Oct 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- "KlimOp-AI: Intelligent Climate Optimization with and for horticulturistsFrom1 Sep 2021 → TodayFunding: IWT / VLAIO - Agricultural research
Publications
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- Foliar water uptake does not contribute to embolism repair in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)(2022)
Authors: Jeroen Schreel, Craig Brodersen, Thomas De Schryver, Manuel Dierick, Adriana Rubinstein, Koen Dewettinck, Matthieu Boone, Luc Van Hoorebeke, Kathy Steppe
Pages: 555 - 566 - Measurement of low sap flux density in plants using the single needle heat pulse probe(2021)
Authors: Ruiqi Ren, Bingcheng Si, Nicholas J. Kinar, Gang Liu, Buli Cui, Kathy Steppe
- Assimilate, process and analyse thermal dissipation sap flow data using the TREX r package(2021)
Authors: Richard Peters, Christoforos Pappas, Alexander G. Hurley, Rafael Poyatos, Victor Flo, Roman Zweifel, Willem Goossens, Kathy Steppe
Pages: 342 - 350 - Applying RGB- and thermal-based vegetation indices from UAVs for high-throughput field phenotyping of drought tolerance in forage grasses(2021)
Authors: Tom De Swaef, Wouter Maes, Jonas Aper, Joost Baert, Mathias Cougnon, Dirk Reheul, Kathy Steppe, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, Peter Lootens
- Acoustic vulnerability, hydraulic capacitance, and xylem anatomy determine drought response of small grain cereals(2021)
Authors: Szanne Degraeve, Niels De Baerdemaeker, Maarten Ameye, Olivier Leroux, Geert Haesaert, Kathy Steppe
- In situ measurement of plant hydraulic conductance(2020)Volume: 1300
Authors: H. J. Schenk, K. Mocko, J. M. Michaud, A. Hunt, G. Roldan, M. Catalan, A. Downey, Kathy Steppe, T. Hölttä, Y. Salmon
Pages: 169 - 178 - Evaluation and optimization of a 3D-printed external heat pulse sensor(2020)
Authors: Hans Van de Put, Dirk De Pauw, Kathy Steppe
- An improved single probe method for sap flow measurements using finite heating duration(2020)
Authors: Ruiqi Ren, Jonas von der Crone, Robert Horton, Gang Liu, Kathy Steppe
- Respiratory CO2 combined with a blend of volatiles emitted by endophytic Serendipita strains strongly stimulate growth of Arabidopsis implicating auxin and cytokinin signaling(2020)
Authors: Jolien Venneman, Lore Vandermeersch, Christophe Walgraeve, Kris Audenaert, Maarten Ameye, Jan Verwaeren, Kathy Steppe, Herman Van Langenhove, Geert Haesaert, Danny Vereecke
- Comparative analysis of two sister Erythrophleum species (Leguminosae) reveal contrasting transcriptome-wide responses to early drought stress(2019)
Authors: Mohamed Neji, Anais Gorel, Dario I Ojeda, Jerome Duminil, Chedly Kastally, Kathy Steppe, Adeline Fayolle, Olivier J Hardy
Pages: 50 - 62