Several CSC researchers are helping organise the Virtual Nematology Conference 2025 — a global, online event by and for early career researchers 🌱🌍 🗓️ 13–14 Nov 2025 | 📍Gathertown 📌 Reg open now (closes 10 Sept) — scan the QR in the poster to join!

New In Brief article from @minyaojhu.bsky.social & Raphael Ledermann (Oxford) highlights how plants support nitrogen-fixing bacteria by producing heme precursors needed by both partners. A clever case of coordinated nodule metabolism! 🌱https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf156 @camplantsci.bsky.social

🌱 Join us at the Festival of Plants this Saturday (10am–5pm) at Cambridge University Botanical Garden. Use our microscopes to view fungi living inside plant roots, race in the mycorrhizal relay, sketch underground networks & chat with our scientists! 📍Find us in the Pop-Up Plant Science Tent!

Celebrating Deni's Masters Viva, and the birthday of our acting Director Prof Uta Paszkowski 🎉🎂👏

Congratulations Uta👏👏👏

🧬 As part of a wider collaboration, our researchers show that disrupting plant-nematode communication could limit cyst nematode infections. A step towards more resilient crops.🌱https://www.cropsciencecentre.org/news/disrupting-communication-with-plants-could-limit-cyst-nematode-infections/

Thank you to our former CSC society presidents for your dedication, and a warm welcome to our new presidents! Your leadership is a great asset to the Crop Science Centre. We look forward to an exciting year ahead!

First "mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄" post since migrating to Bluesky! And coincides with writing up a paper featuring lots of live-imaged arbuscules. So here's one example: confocal micrograph of a rice root colonised by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, coloured by depth 🔬

[email protected] has coordinated a special Frontiers in Plant Science editorial on plant-parasitic nematodes, highlighting innovative, eco-friendly strategies for managing them 👉 www.cropsciencecentre.org/news/dr-vict... #nematodes #Agriculture

Explore the insights from Ahmed's recent research trip to #Somalia. His work on #cowpea examines how 30+ years of civil war and recurrent droughts have impacted its genetic diversity. 🌱 Read more: www.cropsciencecentre.org/news/researc...

Find out how @vmourade.bsky.social is using fungus to protect key crops in Brazil ➡️https://www.cropsciencecentre.org/news/using-fungus-to-protect-key-crops-in-brazil/ 🍄🌾🇧🇷 #Brazil #Agriculture #plantsatcambridge Photo from Dr Meyer and Dr Favery