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AN INSTANT RESPONSE!!

MARIOOOOOO!!!!

Misery loves company, so join us this Saturday at 9 am. As always we’ll be at @BlackHartSTP

We fight back from two down to take a point at the Amex! 🐺⏱️

BALLGAME

SANG BIN SAYS GOOD NIGHT SALT LAKE CITY RSL: ✅❌❌❌ MIN: ✅✅❌✅

A big three points at Molineux. 🐺⏱️

Moving over to Bluesky. You can find me at @nickrajtar.bsky.soical I’ll still be checking this app for academic posts occasionally.

New paper out by grad student Sofia Simeto on our continuing efforts to explore the use of entomopathogens to control the emerald ash borer (EAB)- this paper on infecting EAB eggs doi.org/10.3390/f15122… A MN Invasive and Terrestrial Plant and Pest Center funded project

New paper just out - Aquatic Xylaria - exotic fungus introduced into the United States tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #fungi #mushrooms

New paper out in Nature: Scientific Reports on the intercontinental movement of exotic fungi into the US on decorative wood used in aquariums. 44 samples -100 taxa found: 31 species not present in the US, plant pathogens, wood decay fungi – all from Asia rdcu.be/edTaW

All it took was a little rain and Pleurotus is out the size of dinner plates!

Our exotic underwater Xylaria continues to grow in our lab aquarium and it has moved into new wood. This little known foreign fungus (now in aquariums in the US) has the unusual ability to grow underwater - more information see: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Witches cauldrons and devils urns - new article out on these spring fungi forestpathology.cfans.umn.edu/sites/forestpa…

Early July is a magical time in the Northwoods with Ganoderma tsugae out in all its glory #fungi #reishi #lingzhi

Buckthorn is an invasive tree in North America that displaces native plants and threatens natural habitats. New paper just out on the #fungi associated with dying buckthorn – next step is testing them for their #biocontrol potential mdpi.com/1999-4907/16/7…

New paper just out reporting 14 new records of Phytophthora species for Minnesota doi.org/10.1080/070606…

Read our new paper out on 14 previously undetected Phytophthora species from Minnesota's nurseries, forests and waterways. If you'd like access to the full article don't pay for it please DM me and I can share it with you. Robert Blanchette tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Check out my feature on WCCO yesterday on about my new paper! Robert Blanchette @UMNMITPPC University of Minnesota cbsnews.com/minnesota/news…