🍄 Fungi Field Day is almost here! 🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October 🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone! We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿 #CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents

🍄 One month until Fungi Field Day 2025!! 🍄 Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word! www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...

Spent last week at the microscope 🔬✨, and seeing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi up close for the first time—hyphae, arbuscules, vesicles—was absolutely mind-blowing. Small but mighty partners of plant roots 🌿. Sharing a few of my favourite shots. #Mycorrhiza #fungi

Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵

Beautiful microscopy of beautiful arbuscules

What does colonisation tell us? Revisiting the functional outcomes of #root colonisation by arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi A #Letter by @frewecologist.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Uta Paszkowski expands on the arbuscular mycorrhizal theme with a cool spatial transcriptome method to better resolve dynamics during colonization of rice. Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules. #2025ISMPMI

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸 #outreach #mycosky #fungi

How to teach kids (+ parents) the concept of mycorrhizal symbiosis? Here's a thread of things that we use @paszkowskilab.bsky.social 🧵 #outreach #fungi #plant #science

A great letter from @frewecologist.bsky.social- very important and timely. And spot on that live imaging + the AMSlide is providing plenty of insights into this! More soon...🔬

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Just a particularly pretty arbuscule in a rice root cell colonised by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, with a cool view down an intercellular hypha. Stained with WGA-Alexafluor488, imaged by CLSM, false-coloured by depth in root 🔥 #microscopy #mycosci #fungi

Nearly time for the Festival of Plants 2025!!! We'll be in the Pop-up Plant Science tent with microscopes, crafts, games and much more mycorrhizal fun🔬🖍️🎨🧩 @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social #mycosci #fungi #plants

New paper! The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species. Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Dual-host woody species occupy a broader geographical range and environmental niche space compared to those associating exclusively with either AM or EM.

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Been looking at the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita this week. Not only does it form ENORMOUS spores, but also bunches of knobbly 'auxiliary cells'. Can't find a description of auxiliary cell function anywhere...does anyone know what they do? #mycosci #fungi

Sharing some of my own #mycorrhiza #microscopy from @paszkowskilab.bsky.social Rhizophagus irregularis inside a rice lateral root (plant & fungal CWs stained with calcofluor white, 400x mag)

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Some chunky hyphae and arbuscules of the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, running along the length of a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root. #mycosky #fungi #microscopy

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Roots are busy places... here's a rice root packed with mycorrhizal fungal arbuscules 🔬

Good news for fungal networks in Europe as the EU moves towards healthier soils.  The Soil Monitoring Law will pave the way for healthier soils that benefit us, and our environment: buff.ly/SodAQYg Protect soils. Protect the Underground.   📷 Seth Carnill and Quentin van den Bossche

"Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning" www.livescience.com/planet-earth... Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 No rice this week: instead a beautiful arbuscule formed by native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (identity unknown) within a Plantago root. This animation takes you through a z-stack 🔬

アメリカセンダングサ（Bidens frondosa）の根に形成されたアーバスキュラー菌根菌の樹枝状体。 外来種の繁殖にもアーバスキュラー菌根菌が影響している可能性があります。

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Neighbouring arbuscules formed by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. Makes the rice root look like an apartment block full of fungal inhabitants 🌃🌇

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Some chunky hyphae of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis forming fungal pipelines inside a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root 🔬

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 View through the 3D structure of an arbuscule. This is in a rice root cell colonised by the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis 🔬

Fungal mycelia are finally getting the spotlight they deserve! And how could they not? Their morphology is just stunning! We tracked our friend Absidia sp. forming this intricate exploratory mycelium, showcasing unique elongation and branching patterns #fungi #mycelium #networks

あなたが目にしているその根は、根ではなく菌根である可能性が高いのです。

Stunning exhibition at Somerset House, London, reveals the world at our feet. Artists and thinkers unearth the soil’s secrets and connect the underground to the big issues facing our planet today. Great to see our film playing at the exhibition. Watch it here: youtu.be/0-hS4HoW5fM?... #fungi

Our newest research in @nature.com We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social

Our Public Engagement webpage has had an update! Take a look to see what our lab have been up to 😁 festivals, talks, articles, workshops and plenty of fun and games 👾🌻🍄 www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/gro... @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social #outreach #sciart #education

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 I spend most days looking at arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in rice roots. But here is some maize for a change 🌽🌽🌽 a root cortical cell hosting a young arbuscule, stained with WGA-Alexafluor488 and imaged by confocal microscopy

How do fungi explore a root system over time? Spatial & temporal tracking of the Nicotiana root symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi using MycoRed. Videos, images & optimised Rhizotrons by Nicolas Garcia Hernandez @slcuplants.bsky.social Science behind it: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

If you are interested in non-invasive timelapse microscopy of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, or want to see videos of growing and collapsing arbuscules, you can find our paper here: doi.org/10.1111/jmi....

Great to see the @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social Botanical Microscopy Special Issue compiled, complete with a mycorrhizal front cover 😊 already looking forward to the next International Botanical Microscopy Meeting!

Hello Bluesky! This is the account of the Cereal Symbiosis Lab run by Prof. Uta Paszkowski at @cropscicentre.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social, researching arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereal crops 🍄🌾🌽 Looking forward to reconnecting with the mycorrhiza community on this new platform!

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Enjoying looking at some different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species thanks to @mvanderheijden.bsky.social. This is a rice root colonised by coils and arbuscules of Paraglomus laccatum, stained with trypan blue.

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 🔬