Want to learn more about fungal ecology thru cake? Check out our lab's entry in @KQED "Science is A Piece of Cake" contest. Too many people from the lab to list individually but shout out to our ring leaders @eco_genome & Esther Tok (we start at min 52)

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Ever wonder how climate change is going to affect symbiotic interactions? In this new @NSF funded work w/ @qin_clara @Mike_VanNuland @PellitierPeter @KaiZhuPhD we project future range mismatches for EcM #fungi and their host trees

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RT @JFungica: Take a look at our lastest paper, which examined the impact of a hurricane on mycorrhizal networks in a tropical dry forest h….

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…and that most of the important ways in which mycorrhizal symbiosis transforms our view of nature hold regardless of what what version of CMNs we eventually discover to be true. 6/n.

SO, let’s continue to research and debate CMNs, and it’s OK if they get a somewhat larger amount of public attention because admittedly they are cool. BUT let’s also keep in mind that this is actually a relatively unimportant part of mycorrhizal research… 5/n.

AND - there is a huge interest in #FUNGI now - how they can be used to build a green economy, sequester carbon, or buffer ecosystems against climate change that has NOTHING to do with CMNs. 4/n. For example

There are many reasons mycorrhizal work has grown dramatically - better molecular methods, general interest in the microbiome, appreciation for the ubiquity of mutualisms, and recognized importance of mycorrhizal fungi in biogeochemical cycles. 3/n.

CMNs are actually a VERY small part of mycorrhizal research (then and now) and I disagree that CMNs (let alone one scientists’ work in this field) have “propelled the mycorrhizal research community from an obscure and underfunded field to one that excites the public” 2/n.

I’ve enjoyed recent debates about common mycorrhizal networks and the #woodwideweb as well explained in this nice @nature_news piece by @Aisling_Irwin BUT I disagree with one misconception that I think is being propagated in these discussions 1/n .

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