I'll be presenting Wed 17th 11:30 at IMMM2025 in Munich in our labs work on the role of the D14L-SMAX1 module in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, and why we think it operates in two distinct roles (regulating the common symbiosis pathway and independent of it in the cortex).
#immm2025

Spirit of chlorea defeated with bottled water and improved hydraulic infrastructure

Alien infiltrator

(Rhizophagus irregularis in rice lateral root, 3d reconstruction)

I'll be at @ipgsa2025.bsky.social in 10 days time - come find me at poster 102 to discuss what we've learned in rice about the role of KL & its negative regulator SMAX1 in root development, mycorrhizal symbiosis and germination, as well as our efforts to take chemical control of this pathway.

Some more #mycorrhiza #microscopy

Rhizophagus irregularis inside a rice lateral root (plant & fungal CWs stained with calcofluor white, 400x mag)

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)

Came across a strange website that appears to be some sort of LLM generated scam product for weed growers. Interesting to see that while the LLM has hallucinated all the citations it does get the right volume for the publication year.

www.growwithgrease.com/blogs/news/f...

An expanding Rhizophagus irregularis arbuscule engulfs the nuceli of a rice root cortex cell, itself already swollen from endoreduplication and the effort of symbiont accommodation

(plant nuceli expressing YFP+RFP, cell walls stained with calcafluor white)

Rice root cells really filled with fungus

(cell walls stained with calcafluor white)

Rice lateral root filling with growing Rhizophagus irregularis arbuscules

(fungal cell wall stained with trypan blue)