Episode notes
In this episode, Dr. Liz Bowman describes the importance of fungi in the lives of plants. We focus particularly on the invasive plant - Buffelgrass - and how fungal communities differ between populations in their native (African) and non-Native (Texas & Arizona) ranges. Surprisingly, fungus plays a very important role in the lives of plants! Listen in to hear about differences among these communities and our discussion of her recent paper titled "Invasive Buffelgrass, Cenchrus ciliaris, Balances Opportunistic Acquisition of Foliar fungi With Host and Environmental Filtering in Its Introduced Range" published in the peer-reviewed journal Molecular Ecology. You can click on this link to read the paper:
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biologyspecies interactionsfungusplantsBuffelgrass