6 years ago I approached a PI on a #PhD advert on effectors in tree x ECM #fungi symbiosis. I asked if we can look at small #RNA too because I'm fascinated with smRNA signaling. Thanks to A/Prof Jonathan Plett who take my curiosity onboard, I'm stoked to see it out PNASNews (1/1)

Check out our two new papers in Nature Communications! Based on a two years evolution experiment they show how bee pollination and aphid herbivory interact with soil type to promote divergent evolution rdcu.be/dCFSp and local adaptation rdcu.be/dLanU in plants

🌳🐭New study explores how yellow-necked mice & common oaks navigate a dynamic mutualism. Species abundance & abiotic stress are critical! Read more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… 🌰🌱#Ecology #Mutualism Rafał Zwolak 📊 Michał Bogdziewicz Paulina Aleksandra Wróbel 🕊.🐿️.🌱.🌳 mz

Always happy to read about root exudates - emerging estimates of #root exudation at global scale 🤓

Emails about mallets, snacks, sun lotion, waterproofs and mosquito repellent can only mean one thing.... the first fieldwork trip for our #Biodiversa project is near!!! With Natalie Oram and Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab 🎉

Botanist’s paradise - when your coffee cup accidentally lands next to Platanthera chlorantha! Preparing for welcoming Natalie Oram and Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍 and sampling grasslands for #Biodiversa project!

When work feels like a holiday - great company, smooth teamwork and 8 grasslands of contrasting land use are sampled! It was an absolute pleasure to show our field sites!

So excited to share our recent New Phytologist paper on #evolution of #mimulus #leaf traits in response to #drought (1/n) Amy Angert nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

So happy that our review is out Functional Ecology. Thanks to co-authors Prof. Katie Field, Tim Daniell and Chris Bell as well as to the reviewers! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Our new study highlights the need for quality control in US #AMF mycorrhizal products. After assessing 23 inoculants, products underperformed compared to research lab-grown fungi, showing #plantpathogens, non-viability, and few AM fungal spores: Read it! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wonderful talk by Giles E D Oldroyd (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈 - plants may do bet hedging with their roots - they might signal readiness to engage in mycorrhizal symbiosis in only one root at a time while keeping others non-symbiotic, just to keep options open! #ICOM12

Amazing talks today at #ICOM12! Prof. Katie Field demonstrating how herbivory determines carbon flow to AM fungi, legendary James Bever showing how the spatial structure of AM fungi determines mutualism success 🧱 and Nancy Johnson highlighting the importance of local adaptation.🤓

🍃Leaf #functionaltraits predict timing of nutrient resorption & carbon depletion in deciduous subarctic #plants: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Species-specific microsymbiont discrimination mediated by a Medicago receptor kinase | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Yuying Jing presented first results from our #PlantSoilAdapt European Research Council (ERC) project about how grassland age affects #drought resilience at #SERE2024 🤩 Excellent talk and so proud of our team! Plant Ecology UT HonorPrentice

Really interesting session at #SERE24 about considering genetic diversity in nature restoration including first talk at an international conference by Anastasia Tõnisson about effects of grassland grazing abandonment! 🤩💪European Research Council (ERC) Landscape Biodiversity Lab

This took us a while — very happy it is finally out! Parallel ecological and evolutionary responses to selection in a natural bacterial community | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

"Differential responses of community-level functional traits to mid- and late-season experimental drought in a temperate grassland" out in Journal of Ecology, led by Erola Fenollosa besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… Oxford Biology Wytham Woods SalGo Team

We won’t be idle in winter - our new PhD student Anna Marija Firere will be doing her first plant-soil feedback experiment with barley! We only need 2000kg of soil to start with 🦾 #AgroCropFuture

On the reading list!