Kew's report highlights how ignorant we are of an astonishingly successful Kingdom of life.
Category - Conferences
Alun Salt
Fungus gnats see red when pollinating
Some plants rely on gnats for pollination, but they also rely on fungi to provide a food source for the next generation of gnats.
Does mycorrhizal status alter herbivore-induced changes in whole-plant resource partitioning?
Plants simultaneously interact with beneficial and antagonistic organisms such as mycorrhizal fungi and herbivores, respectively. Both mycorrhizae and herbivore damage cause rapid changes in source–sink dynamics within...
William Salter
Plants and Fungi: An ancient partnership
Why are we interested in fungi here? Partly because if you're interested in plants, you'll find fungi everywhere.
#SOTWF18 – The State of the World’s Fungi
Kew will be publishing its first State of the World’s Fungi report on Wednesday, with a follow-up symposium on Thursday and Friday. We plan to be there on both days, and in the build-up to the report and the...
Ecology of Floristic Quality Assessment: testing for correlations between coefficients of conservatism, species traits and mycorrhizal responsiveness
Many plant species are limited to habitats relatively unaffected by anthropogenic disturbance, so protecting these undisturbed habitats is essential for plant conservation. Coefficients of conservatism (C values) are...
Trees and Wellbeing Conference at Oxford Brookes University, 18 May 2018
This conference brought together recent research and ancient wisdom to discuss the beneficial effects of trees on human wellbeing and happiness. It was organized by Christiana Payne, Professor of History of Art at...
Christina Payne
A bumper crop of fungi
The Fungal Kingdom, edited by Joseph Heitman, Barbara J. Howlett, Pedro W. Crous, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Timothy Y. James and Neil A. R. Gow, 2018. American Society for Microbiology Press There has been a veritable...
Nigel Chaffey
How a microbe moulded mankind
The Rise of Yeast: How the sugar fungus shaped civilization by Nicholas P. Money, 2018. Oxford University Press. I am a Botanist: All aspects of plants and plant biology are of interest to me. But, I’m particularly...
7th International and 16th National Conference on Plant Resources: Current Trends, Challenges and Solutions
Pakistan is the home of some of the world’s leading ecological regions due to immense variation in its wide latitude, spread from gigantic mountain peaks of Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Western Himalayas to the...
Anne Osterrieder
Meet the real fungi…
Fungi: A Very Short Introduction, by Nicholas P. Money, 2016. Oxford University Press. As much as I would like to think that plants are the most important organisms on planet Earth, even I have to admit that fungi are...
Communicating Science and Scicomm career advice from Sci Comm Camp
What does it mean to be a Science Communicator? What tips can you pick up from others? Ian Street has been finding out at this year's Sci Comm Camp.
Ian Street
Predictive modelling for yield – bringing genotype and phenotype together
Yesterday was our final day at Bioenergy Genomics 2017. There’s quite a bit of video to sort through and process, so I’ll be busy for a while with it. We’ll be putting that up on YouTube. In the mean...
Genetic and genomic approaches to biomass crop improvement
We’re still at Bioenergy Genomics 2017, streaming talks when we can. We’ll be processing these to go on to YouTube. In the meantime you can see the rushes, as it were, through the tweets and Periscope links...
