Walid Sadok

Assistant Professor

Office Address

546 Borlaug Hall

Mailing Address

411 Borlaug Hall
1991 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108
msadok@umn.edu
+1 612 625 8291
Sadok Lab website

Education

Ph.D.: Montpellier SupAgro (2005)
Year Appointed: 2015
Rank: Assistant Professor

Walid Sadok

Areas of Interest

Crop physiology; abiotic stress tolerance

Teaching

Hort3005W: "Environmental Effects on Horticultural Crops," Spring 2016.

Selected Publications

Sadok, W. 2015. The circadian life of nocturnal water use: when late night decisions help improve your day. Plant, Cell and Environment (in press: DOI: 10.1111/pce.12625).
Craheix, D., J.-E. Bergez, F. Angevin, C. Bockstaller, M. Bohanec, B. Colomb, T. Doré, G. Fortino, L. Guichard, E. Pelzer, A. Méssean, R. Reau and W. Sadok. 2015. Methodological guidelines for designing multicriteria models to assess agricultural sustainability. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 1-17. (in press: DOI10.1007/s13593-015-0315-0).
Schoppach, R., E. Claverie and  W. Sadok. 2014. Genotype-dependent influence of night-time vapour pressure deficit on night-time transpiration and daytime gas exchange in wheat. Functional Plant Biology, 41: 963-971.
Schoppach, R., D. Wauthelet, L. Jeanguenin and  W. Sadok. 2014. Conservative water use under high evaporative demand associated with smaller root metaxylem and limited trans- membrane water transport in wheat. Functional Plant Biology, 41: 257–269.
Schoppach, R. and  W. Sadok. 2013. Transpiration sensitivities to evaporative demand and leaf areas vary with night and day warming regimes among wheat genotypes. Functional Plant Biology, 40: 708–718.
Schoppach, R. and  W. Sadok. 2012. Differential sensitivities of transpiration to evaporative demand and soil water deficit among wheat elite cultivars indicate different strategies for drought tolerance. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 84: 1–10.
Sadok, W. and T. R. Sinclair. 2012. Zinc treatment results in transpiration rate decreases that vary among soybean genotypes. Journal of Plant Nutrition, 35: 1866–1877.
Fiscus, E.L., F.L. Booker, W. Sadok and K.O. Burkey. 2012. Influence of atmospheric vapour pressure deficit on ozone responses of snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotypes. Journal of Experimental Botany, 63: 2557–2564.
Devi, M.J., W. Sadok and T. R. Sinclair. 2012. Transpiration response of de-rooted peanut  plants to aquaporin inhibitors. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 78: 167–172.
Sadok, W., M.E. Gilbert, M.A.S. Raza, and T.R. Sinclair. 2012. Basis of slow-wilting phenotype in soybean PI 471938. Crop Science, 52: 1261–1269.
Gilbert, M.E., N.M. Holbrook, M.A. Zwieniecki, W. Sadok and T.R. Sinclair. 2011. Field confirmation of genetic variation in soybean transpiration response to vapor pressure deficit and photosynthetic compensation. Field Crops Research, 124: 85–92.
Welcker, C., W. Sadok, G. Dignat, M. Renault, S. Salvi, A. Charcosset and F. Tardieu. 2011. A common genetic determinism for sensitivities to soil water deficit and evaporative demand : meta-analysis of QTLs and introgression lines of maize. Plant Physiology, 157: 718–729.
Sadok, W., and T. R. Sinclair. 2011. Crops yield increase under water limited conditions: review of recent physiological advances in soybean genetic improvement. Advances in Agronomy, 113: 313–337.
Sadok, W., and T. R. Sinclair. 2010. Genetic variability of transpiration response of soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) plants to leaf hydraulic conductance inhibitor AgNO3. Crop Science, 50: 1423–1430.
Sadok, W., and T. R. Sinclair. 2010. Transpiration response of ‘slow-wilting’ and commercial soybean (Glycine max [L.]) Merr.) genotypes to three aquaporin inhibitors under high evaporative demand. Journal of Experimental Botany, 61: 821–829.
Bergez, J-E., N. Colbach, O. Crespo, F. Garcia, C. Gary, M.-H. Jeuffroy, E. Justes, C. Loyce, N. Munier-Jolain, and W. Sadok. 2010. Designing crop management systems by simulation. European Journal of Agronomy, 32: 3–9.