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Favourite fungi culture so far 🍄

Day 1 on St Helena - WiFi up and running to share these glorious photos of the gardens around our accommodation and already evidence of pests laying eggs in the fruit of a peach tree 🍑

Necrosis, gummosis and fungi - the variety of pathogens in just one garden 🪴

Our study on intraspecific hybrids between photosynthetic types in the grass Alloteropsis semialata is now available in Plant Cell & Environment! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… Great team effort w/ GSotelo Emma Curran Vanja Milenkovic thehiddenworldofmicroorganisms @LukeTDunning LBertolino Colin Osborne @PACgrass

Skeletons of black cabbage trees dotted throughout the peaks of St Helena show the severity of the problem on the island. Dr Rebecca Cairns-Wicks showing us around and the amazing work carried out by islanders to remove invasive species and replant these endemic trees

BIFoR Some very fun plant path women BIFoR Amy Webster Jiaqi Wei katherinehinton Mojgan Rabiey Vanja Milenkovic Diana Vinchira Emily Grace

Some of the Peaks Conservation Team, up on Cabbage Tree road earlier this week. Invasive clearing and endemic planting. An ongoing challenge in The Peaks #NationalPark #wtsdn #sthelenaisland #dianaspeak #conservation #cloudforestrestorationproject #saints

still haven't managed to get there but I'm told our ladybirds are still eating the Orthezia scale. Project to investigate the microbial diseases of St Helena’s crop plants takes root – CABI Blog blog.cabi.org/2022/03/14/pro…

I recruited some artist-scientists to help me with a banner for BIFoR and UoB Biosciences, together this team produced something beautiful and we had a bit of fun! Thanks Jiaqi Wei and Michael Choi for your time and talent!

Amazing time learning about Clare’s experience, and not the last for sure!

I’ve recently had the privilege to accompany BIFoR funded Doctoral Researcher Amy Webster to St Helena island as partners of a @Darwin_Defra funded project led by CABI colleagues Rob Reeder, Norbert Maczey and Phil Taylor

Heart of England and Wyre forest soil sampling trip, for Vanja Milenkovic to explore the chemistry that influences these healthy and diseased oaks 🌳

Spreading the love for everything BIFoR at Norbury canal festival

Not sure how I became official photographer but here we are a global tree community BIFoR #BIFoRCom22 thanks to @nanimuelbert and Tom Pugh our academic leads for this year’s conference!

Great experience at this years BIFoR meeting, and my first conference poster #BIFoRCom22 The power, protection and importance of forest health!🌲 🌳 🌲

Great time at Kosta, Sweden learning about the toxic waste produced by the glass industry and the socio-ecological impacts associated with it, thanks to Linnéuniversitetet Linnaeus University

We’re delighted that our partnership project to restore the St Helena Cloud Forest has had funding secured for another 3 years thanks to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office! Read more about the amazing biodiversity found here, and the work to save it, in our new blog: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/acti…

A whole load of learning and a whole load of networking! Thank you NERC Environmental Omics Facility and Sheffield, until next time 🌱

Really great talk by Amy Webster on a tree dieback disease in St. Helena #BIFoRCom23 BIFoR

Fantastic talk by our very own Amy Webster on a tree dieback disease in St M. Helena BIFoR @BIFoRCom23