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MycoBloom

@mycobloom.bsky.social
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MycoBloom provides locally-adapted mycorrhizal fungal inoculants from the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest and beyond. www.mycobloom.com 🍄 📸 🌎 Nature based solutions 💕

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MycoBloom @mycobloom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Real-world results from the classroom 🌱🦠🌏 Students grew milkweed with/without MycoBloom fungal inoculant and found: “MycoBloom treated swamp milkweed sprouted sooner and is much taller!” — Lisa Ball, Environmental Club Sponsor, Lawrence High School #Mycorrhizae #Milkweed #STEMeducation
Side-by-side comparison of swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) seedlings in a high school science classroom. The left tray, treated with MycoBloom fungal inoculant, shows taller, more vigorous plants, while the right untreated control tray has shorter, less developed seedlings. The image documents a student classroom experiment comparing plant growth under identical conditions with and without fungal inoculation.
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MycoBloom @mycobloom.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
MycoBloom's work with native AMF for restoration is in the news @theguardian.com along with the research of @lizkoziol.bsky.social, @invam.bsky.social fungal collection, and others: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing
These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close
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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
My new paper is out! 🧪🦠 Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland restoration successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic... Why microbes matter in restoration 🧵
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Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds
Native mycorrhizal fungi enhance prairie restoration by boosting native plant diversity, supporting late-successional species, and reducing invasive plants
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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share. Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
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Jen McGaley @jenmcgaley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 No rice this week: instead a beautiful arbuscule formed by native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (identity unknown) within a Plantago root. This animation takes you through a z-stack 🔬
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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Newly Submitted Manuscript: A vibrant forb-rich prairie restoration powered by native mycorrhizal fungal inoculants! Data from 7 years post-inoculation shows AM fungal amendments boost plot quality (Floristic Quality Index) and reduces weeds. #SoilHealth #nativeplants #Mycorrhizae #forbs 🍄🧪🌏🌾🌿
Graphical abstract of the submitted manuscript: A photo of a forb-rich prairie restoration alongside images of native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal spores. Two graphs illustrate that increasing AM fungal amendments improved plot quality (Floristic Quality Index) and reduced weed abundance in the margins.
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MycoBloom @mycobloom.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Our very own @lizkoziol.bsky.social will speak at the @thegsbi.bsky.social panel on microbial inoculants this Wednesday! 🦠🌎👩‍🔬
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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Join me Wednesday to talk soil inoculants—the good, the bad, and the dead on arrival. 🌱💀 #SoilScience
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Sidney Stürmer @sturmer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
How resilient are AMF cultures? Gi. decipiens SCT711C and Paraglomus sp. SCT771G stored for 8 years at 4C still kicking and alive. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you all folks!! Cheers
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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Happy holidays y'all #mycosky 🦠
Spores of AM fungi in the shape of a Christmas tree.
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MycoBloom @mycobloom.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
MycoBloom mycorrhizal inoculants: #AMF from old-growth prairies, crafted by a women-owned small business, 🌿 made in the USA, and 🌎 shipped only to the US and Canada. Boost your plants the natural way! 🍄 #HealthySoil #Mycorrhizae #RegenerativeAg #prairierestoration #growyourown
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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Many crops lose their reliance on #AMF during domestication, but we found a novel #perennial grain is becoming MORE responsive to AMF. Work by Tom McKenna, @lizkoziol Jared Crain @crews1859 Ben Sikes, Lee DeHaan and Jim Bever @NatureAsMeasure nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Selection for agronomic traits in intermediate wheatgrass increases responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Agricultural practices have had a negative impact on the physical, chemical, and biological components of soil. Perennial cropping systems that facilitate positive soil microbial interactions could n...
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