Looking forward to presenting my recent research on plant zing! nutrition at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se tomorrow 🌱
Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
@mycoresearch.bsky.social
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Researching mycorrhizal fungi for food and nutrition security at Wageningen Uni 🌾 Aussie🇦🇺 living the cycling dream in NL🇳🇱
![Fig. 1.Description of the aeroponics cultivation system and downstream collection and analysis of root exudates. (A) Scheme of the experimental setup [the germinated spores of the AMF Rhizophagus irregularis were created in BioRender [Bouhedi, B. (2025) https://BioRender.com/qtva7lu]. (B) Pictures of aerial (upper panel) and root parts (lower panel) of maize plants cultivated in aeroponics at the V4 stage. (C) Workflow of the molecular and cellular analyses performed on aeroponics-grown maize plants and their root exudates. (D) Biological significance and composition of the different samples analyzed by untargeted metabolomics. IRM, intraradical mycelium; ERM, extraradical mycelium; GR24, synthetic analog of strigolactone.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ggz22gcwkakll7efac23g33s/bafkreig3lyjohudeapfmfqacxpc5uwghvpdzym5hqh2emwqi7fotn2pi2a)
