Great to present our work on how plants regulate the movement of specific carbon-based compounds to AMF when they are under parasitism by nematodes 🪱 🍄 Soil Biodiversity #GSB2023 Prof. Katie Field Urwin Lab Leeds

Delighted to share the news that I have been awarded a Discovery Fellowship to study the genetic drivers for host resource allocation between plant symbionts Faculty of Biological Sciences can't wait to get started!😀🥳

Great to see some awesome #plantscience in the list of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research 2022 Discovery Fellows! Congrats @Joey_McK Tina Schreier Lorna McAusland Chris Bell ukri.org/news/bbsrc-ann…

This month in the South American Mycorrhizal Research Network vlog), Pedro M. Antunes interviews Prof. Katie Field about their recent New Phytologist article showing the first direct evidence of nutrient exchange between plants & Mucoromycotina fine root endophytes Besiana Sinanaj International Mycorrhiza Society youtu.be/EcUPEs-uP3M

Chris Bell Chris Bell Plant Sciences Leeds worms into #ppath23 talking abt how potato cyst nematodes response to altered carbon fluxes, specifically looking at changes in SWEET gene expression. BTW that's expression of genes called SWEET and not sweeeet genes (dude) 🤙

For Nematology fans AAB Nematology Group is organising 'Advances in Nematology' December 7th The Linnean Society of London in central London Abstract Submission deadline is October 1st 🕸️cvent.me/QKqMzn

#iMMM2023 Prof. Katie Field standing in for Chris Bell you wasn’t able to attend in person to present his work on Phytophagy driving a plant-led reduction in sugar allocation to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi by host plants whilst lipid supply is maintained nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Fancy working with myself and @Urwinlab utilising microfluidics devices to understand how parasitic nematodes acquire their resources from plants 🪱🌱? White Rose BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership PhD opportunity, more info -> findaphd.com/phds/project/w…

There’s still time to submit your abstract. Message me to find out more and please share!

A Saturday mycorrhizal treat - I'm so pleased to share our latest The Leverhulme Trust Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research research Chris Bell Emily Magkourilou Urwin Lab Leeds into the interactions between plants, mycorrhizal fungi and parasitic nematodes in Nature Communications, OA here: rdcu.be/dw3NU - short🧵...

Prof. Katie Field The Leverhulme Trust Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Emily Magkourilou Urwin Lab Leeds Nature Communications Great to see this published! Here's a blog post on the background to the work and the main findings go.nature.com/3UaDqaP

Really cool work from Prof. Katie Field, Chris Bell, Emily Magkourilou, Urwin Lab Leeds and coll. on how plants deal with AM fungi and nematodes - Phytophagy impacts the quality and quantity of plant carbon resources acquired by mutualistic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi sco.lt/7OKgka

It was great to collaborate on this research investigating the impact of plant parasitic nematodes on nutrient transfer to mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations to first author Chris Bell and to Emily Magkourilou for a really interesting story!

🪱Reduced price early-bird registration for 35th Symposium of European Society of Nematologists in Cordoba, Spain, (April 15-19th 2024) has been extended to Feb 15th! ⏱️But why wait?! Register now at esn24cordoba.com/registration/

Plant antagonists may disrupt the allocation of carbon resources. Bell et al. report how plants attacked by cyst nematodes & aphids maintain carbon transfer to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Chris Bell Urwin Lab Leeds Prof. Katie Field Faculty of Biological Sciences nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Our next International Mycorrhiza Society Newsletter (No. 14) will be out next week! But meanwhile this snippet of the Top 10 mycorrhizal papers published between January & April 2024. Congrats to Adam Frew Carlos Aguilar-T 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 🇸🇻 🇫🇮 Jeff Powell for the first place, with a super interesting ISME J paper!

Deeelighted to share Emily Magkourilou’s excellent review on mycorrhizal network function across scales of complexity and ecological relevance now put in Functional Ecology! Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… Chris Bell Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil

Great to see this published, congratulations Emily Magkourilou Prof. Katie Field 🥳! discussing how increasing ecological complexity by introducing co-occurring symbionts, including plant-parasitic nematodes🪱, can impact mycorrhizal networks and their functions 🍄