WEI LAB

A fun hunt for wild strawberries🍓at Holden Arboretum today. Some octoploid🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🍓are already flowering🌸(April 20)!

We are transferring thousands of sterile plants🌱 into culture bags to sleep in ❄️ and wait for experiments🧫🦠🧬

🎉 Paper published in Oecologia: Diversity and composition of pollen loads carried by pollinators🐝are primarily driven by insect traits, not floral🌸community characteristics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04911-0

✨ New paper submitted: how plant mutualistic and antagonistic interactions at the rhizosphere and phyllosphere influence bidirectional relationships between floral VOCs and floral microbiome 🌸🦠

😎 Crazy apparatus for measuring 🍓 leaf hydraulics💧 by Dr. Randy Long for a collaborative project with the Stuble Lab and Wei Lab at Holden.

🎉 Paper accepted by Molecular Ecology: Pollinators🐝 mediate floral🌸 microbial diversity and network🦠 under agrochemical disturbance. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15890

🎉 Jessica was awarded a Corliss Knapp Engle Scholarship in Horticulture from the Garden Club of America to study Malus leaf microbiome 🍎🦠🧬🧫

We might be too successful with tissue culture and micropropagation: thousands of sterile plants 🌱 🧪

Plant–microbiome experiment updates: 🌱 growing fast