Me ten years ago trying to get a better view of the 2012 Diamond jubilee river pageant... I called the Queen from a telephone box 😅 #Queenjubilee #London

Funky fungi 🤗🍄

Neat use of CRISPR to bring a gene under control of a new promoter to change its expression without inserting a trans gene rothamsted.ac.uk/news/scientist…

Striga hermonthica is a parasitic plant that devastates African cereal crops. We assembled the genome of this parasite and used it to discover candidate virulence loci 🌱 Now published in New Phytologist at nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #parasiticplants #plantscience #Genomics

Agriculture cannot survive at 50C+ soil temperatures for very long. Civilization cannot survive long without modern agriculture- connect the dots. On current trajectory this doesn’t end well. #heatwave

People keep telling me that because the UK had a heatwave in 1976, climate change is overhyped. So here’s the global heat anomaly maps from June 1976 and June 2022. data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/

Snapped a few mini-beasties in amongst a bunch of wild carrot plants 🌱📸 #NaturePhotography #nature #Toronto #Summer

Summer means peak dragonfly season... I found these beauties all within a stone's throw of each other by a local pond. My fav was the gold-coloured one 🤗😎 #dragonfly #nature #NaturePhotography #summer #sunbathing #beautiful #insects #Toronto #Canada

A happy little beetle having a drink... with just a dusting of pollen to help the nectar go down 🪲🤗 #nature #photography #Toronto #summer #wildflowerhour

Cracking open the witch's spell book: the witchweed genome provides clues to plant parasitism New Phytologist | nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #Genomics #parasiticplants

Some colourful fungi of the forest floor 🍄 😊 Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, CA #Ontario #Canada #hiking #fungi #NaturePhotography #nature

Gold dust day gecko 🦎

UK joins Horizon Europe under a new bespoke deal gov.uk/government/new…

Flora, fauna and … funga: campaigners call for new term for conservation talks theguardian.com/environment/20…

#flowerphotography #Toronto

Online Now: Modulation of fungal phosphate homeostasis by the plant hormone strigolactone dlvr.it/TDtFvp

Soil's secret language: Researchers decode plant-to-fungi communication Molecular Cell phys.org/news/2024-10-s…

New paper🚨: Ever wonder how plants talk to fungi? When plants are low on phosphate (Pi), they exude #Strigolactones (SLs) in soil to obtain Pi from microbes. We show a broad range of fungi in soil respond to SLs 👇 Is the SL response in fungi conserved? authors.elsevier.com/a/1jsQB3vVUPRm…

🇨🇦 Time to spotlight Canadian excellence! In today's podcast episode, we're exploring trans-kingdom communication! Check out this amazing work just published in Molecular Cell by Shelley Lumba 🍄🌿 🎙️Link: open.spotify.com/episode/7bzLRa…