Just published in Plant & Soil we explored how mucilage affects microbial survival and respiration over a dry-rewet cycle. Read more: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/AxuGC4QOPEim…

I’m excited to announce Sydney Plant Ecophys Group is hosting two talks 16 April from 4PM (Australian Eastern time) Thomas Roberts: Australian native grass seeds as indigenous grains & Shreya Veeravelli: NSC storage & allocation in almond crops sydneyplantecophysiologygroup.wordpress.com/talks/

It was great to contribute to paper led by Tsai-Hsuan Tony Hsu on fish corallivory. Turns out storage lipids may play a role in resilience of corals to chronic butterflyfish predation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paper led by by @bahar (not on Bluesky) is methodological tour de force: 13C labelling, mass spec, NEXAFS. Nitrogen availability alters the contribution of ex-vivoand in-vivo pathways to carbon formation in particulate- and mineral-associated organic matter www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmental change Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and…

I moved into a “new” #lab last week. A welcome surprise is finding I’m not the oldest thing in the lab. Case in point: Schott bottle labelled 9/5/71

I’m excited to announce Sydney Plant Ecophys Group is hosting two talks 9 Dec from 4PM (Australian Eastern summer time) Andrew Merchant: plant source-sink dynamics using low field NMR & Davide Siclari: thermal metrics in a warming climate sydneyplantecophysiologygroup.wordpress.com/talks/

We’ve all seen pictures of weird #genAI images, well #biochem images are equally confused. Copilot offered to draw isocitrate to ketoglutarate. It failed!

⚒️ Article: Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus by reducing phosphorus contributions in membrane lipids and increasing intracellular carbon storage during long-term ecosystem development @charlesrwarren.bsky.social @manzonilab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're hiring! 3 year #postdoc position in microbial ecology of gut and soil at University of Sydney. Suits folk with expertise in experimental microbial ecology (e.g. microbiome manipulation, chemostat measurements, metabolomics, metagenomics) tinyurl.com/4yn4ed5u

We investigated heat tolerance mechanisms of sorghum genotypes differing in heat tolerance. Spoiler: there are multiple constitutive and inducible responses, thus multiple targets for breeding. t.co/YijVjjotu6

Out now. Orpheus Butler used root splitting to determine if #soil #microbial biomass is affected by #plant nutrient status. Spoiler: microbial P is lower when plants are P limited. rdcu.be/d8xjK

Paper published by PhD student Bright Amenkhienan: Understanding extractable metal species relationships with #phosphorus sorption and #organiccarbon in #soils www.publish.csiro.au/SR/SR24118