WEI LAB

Year 3: Malus flower microbiome sampling at both Holden and Secrest Arboretum.

🎉 New paper at Nature Communications: The pollen virome of wild plants and their ecological drivers. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28143-9

✨ A new award from BGCI (https://www.bgci.org/) for supporting student conservation internship on crabapples 🍎🦠🧬.

🎉 New paper at Horticulture Research: bidirectional relationships between floral VOCs and floral microbiomes 🌸🦠 https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhab005

✨ New preprint: Competitive asymmetry between 🧬🧬 and 🧬🧬🧬🧬 under environmental stress💧. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.1111.1108.467667

🎉 Our Nature paper is out: https://rdcu.be/cxoEL. Press release at EurekAlert! AAAS: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/927886.

Pilot field work of plant–pollinator interactions with Dr. Rainee Kaczorowski and Jess at Holden Arboretum, the best place for 🌸🐝 research

✨Lab fun trip at the Stebbins Gulch: https://holdenfg.org/attractions/holden-arboretum/stebbins-gulch/

Jess presents poster for her Norweb Fellowship: Selection for disease resistance drives leaf microbiome assembly in crabapples 🍎 🦠!