Paszkowski Lab
@paszkowskilab.bsky.social
Research group of Prof. Uta Paszkowski, @cropscicentre, @camplantsci, University of Cambridge, working on arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereal crops 🌾🌽🍄
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At the bottom of the image above you can see the spore-like 'auxiliary cells'. It becomes clear where this fungus gets it name when you find a true spore!
January 8, 2026 at 7:26 AM
At the bottom of the image above you can see the spore-like 'auxiliary cells'. It becomes clear where this fungus gets it name when you find a true spore!
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Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
A visit from an artist yesterday was the perfect excuse to spend some time admiring this very beautiful arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus: 𝘎𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢 (pictured here colonising rice roots)
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy
A visit from an artist yesterday was the perfect excuse to spend some time admiring this very beautiful arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus: 𝘎𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢 (pictured here colonising rice roots)
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy
January 8, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
A visit from an artist yesterday was the perfect excuse to spend some time admiring this very beautiful arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus: 𝘎𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢 (pictured here colonising rice roots)
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy
A visit from an artist yesterday was the perfect excuse to spend some time admiring this very beautiful arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus: 𝘎𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢 (pictured here colonising rice roots)
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy
From the Crop Science Centre in Cambridge to farmers' fields in India: check out the translational work of Cereal Symbiosis Lab member Emily Servanté, just published in THE CONVERSATION
theconversation.com/how-im-helpi...
@cropscicentre.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-im-helpi...
@cropscicentre.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social
How I’m helping rice farmers in India harness the power of fungi in the soil
By boosting beneficial microbes, researchers hope to increase crop resilience while reducing the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers.
theconversation.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:14 AM
From the Crop Science Centre in Cambridge to farmers' fields in India: check out the translational work of Cereal Symbiosis Lab member Emily Servanté, just published in THE CONVERSATION
theconversation.com/how-im-helpi...
@cropscicentre.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-im-helpi...
@cropscicentre.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social
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🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.
Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
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La Forêt hyperconnectée avec Francis Martin 🍄🌳
👉A retrouver en rediffusion : www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEh...
👉A retrouver en rediffusion : www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEh...
WEBINAIRE : La forêt hyperconnectée
YouTube video by Etats Sauvages
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM
La Forêt hyperconnectée avec Francis Martin 🍄🌳
👉A retrouver en rediffusion : www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEh...
👉A retrouver en rediffusion : www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEh...
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Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
A tangentially-festive sample this week: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonising the root cells of Ivy 🌿🎄☃️
#mycosky #festive #fungi
A tangentially-festive sample this week: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonising the root cells of Ivy 🌿🎄☃️
#mycosky #festive #fungi
December 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
A tangentially-festive sample this week: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonising the root cells of Ivy 🌿🎄☃️
#mycosky #festive #fungi
A tangentially-festive sample this week: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonising the root cells of Ivy 🌿🎄☃️
#mycosky #festive #fungi
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Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Motivated by a seminar from @tomthirkell.bsky.social, I've delved back into my image archives of mycorrhizal fungi in random plant species. This beautifully bunchy fungal arbuscule in a buttercup root needed sharing!🔬🏵️
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy #outreach
Motivated by a seminar from @tomthirkell.bsky.social, I've delved back into my image archives of mycorrhizal fungi in random plant species. This beautifully bunchy fungal arbuscule in a buttercup root needed sharing!🔬🏵️
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy #outreach
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Motivated by a seminar from @tomthirkell.bsky.social, I've delved back into my image archives of mycorrhizal fungi in random plant species. This beautifully bunchy fungal arbuscule in a buttercup root needed sharing!🔬🏵️
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy #outreach
Motivated by a seminar from @tomthirkell.bsky.social, I've delved back into my image archives of mycorrhizal fungi in random plant species. This beautifully bunchy fungal arbuscule in a buttercup root needed sharing!🔬🏵️
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy #outreach
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Had a great visit to @cropscicentre.bsky.social and @camplantsci.bsky.social, and a very nice stay at St John’s college. Thanks to @paszkowskilab.bsky.social for hosting me!
November 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Had a great visit to @cropscicentre.bsky.social and @camplantsci.bsky.social, and a very nice stay at St John’s college. Thanks to @paszkowskilab.bsky.social for hosting me!
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IN BRIEF: Aeschynomene’s Shortcut: A Receptor-Like Cytoplasmic Kinase Drives Nod-Independent Nodule Formation (Min-Yao Jhu, Chai Hao Chiu) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Aeschynomene's shortcut: A receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase drives nod-independent nodule formation
Legume crops can grow without added nitrogen fertilizers thanks to a remarkable partnership with rhizobia, soil bacteria that fix atmospheric nitrogen with
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
IN BRIEF: Aeschynomene’s Shortcut: A Receptor-Like Cytoplasmic Kinase Drives Nod-Independent Nodule Formation (Min-Yao Jhu, Chai Hao Chiu) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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"Innovation should serve all, not just those who can afford it."
Hear how Crop Science Centre researchers @cam.ac.uk & partners are rethinking how we grow food for a sustainable future.
#COP30 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @jmhibberd.bsky.social
Hear how Crop Science Centre researchers @cam.ac.uk & partners are rethinking how we grow food for a sustainable future.
#COP30 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @jmhibberd.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Innovation should serve all, not just those who can afford it."
Hear how Crop Science Centre researchers @cam.ac.uk & partners are rethinking how we grow food for a sustainable future.
#COP30 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @jmhibberd.bsky.social
Hear how Crop Science Centre researchers @cam.ac.uk & partners are rethinking how we grow food for a sustainable future.
#COP30 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @jmhibberd.bsky.social
It's been a busy time in the Paszkowski lab!
First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Defining the pre-symbiotic transcriptional landscape of rice roots
Plants interact with a plethora of organisms in the rhizosphere, with outcomes that range from detrimental to beneficial. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most ubiquitous beneficial plant ...
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It's been a busy time in the Paszkowski lab!
First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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🍄 Fungi Field Day is almost here!
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm
Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!
We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿
#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm
Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!
We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿
#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents
September 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🍄 Fungi Field Day is almost here!
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm
Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!
We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿
#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm
Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!
We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿
#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents
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I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
Reductive evolution of the DNA replication machinery in endosymbiotic fungi
The molecular machinery for replicating and repairing DNA accurately is critically important for life and highly conserved across the Tree of Life. Here we show that two major lineages of fungi, Glome...
doi.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
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I'll be presenting Wed 17th 11:30 at IMMM2025 in Munich in our labs work on the role of the D14L-SMAX1 module in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, and why we think it operates in two distinct roles (regulating the common symbiosis pathway and independent of it in the cortex).
#immm2025
#immm2025
September 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'll be presenting Wed 17th 11:30 at IMMM2025 in Munich in our labs work on the role of the D14L-SMAX1 module in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, and why we think it operates in two distinct roles (regulating the common symbiosis pathway and independent of it in the cortex).
#immm2025
#immm2025
🍄 One month until Fungi Field Day 2025!! 🍄
Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word!
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...
Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word!
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...
Fungi Field Day - Cambridge University Botanic Garden
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🍄 One month until Fungi Field Day 2025!! 🍄
Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word!
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...
Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word!
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...
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The arum type arbuscules
July 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The arum type arbuscules
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Beautiful microscopy of beautiful arbuscules
July 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Beautiful microscopy of beautiful arbuscules
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Excited to share our new @nature.com paper mapping global mycorrhizal richness and rarity, led by Michael Van Nuland. Over 90% of richness hotspots lie outside protected areas: a critical gap in conservation. Proud to contribute as part of the @spun.earth consortium! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature
Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...
www.nature.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Excited to share our new @nature.com paper mapping global mycorrhizal richness and rarity, led by Michael Van Nuland. Over 90% of richness hotspots lie outside protected areas: a critical gap in conservation. Proud to contribute as part of the @spun.earth consortium! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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She also plugged this innovation:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... The AMSlide for noninvasive time‐lapse imaging of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis - McGaley - 2025 - Journal of Microscopy - Wiley Online Library
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... The AMSlide for noninvasive time‐lapse imaging of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis - McGaley - 2025 - Journal of Microscopy - Wiley Online Library
The AMSlide for noninvasive time‐lapse imaging of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
In most soils across the globe, you will find arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. AM fungi act like an extended root system, foraging in the soil for nutrients and delivering them back to their plant-....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
She also plugged this innovation:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... The AMSlide for noninvasive time‐lapse imaging of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis - McGaley - 2025 - Journal of Microscopy - Wiley Online Library
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... The AMSlide for noninvasive time‐lapse imaging of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis - McGaley - 2025 - Journal of Microscopy - Wiley Online Library
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Uta Paszkowski expands on the arbuscular mycorrhizal theme with a cool spatial transcriptome method to better resolve dynamics during colonization of rice.
Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules.
#2025ISMPMI
Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules.
#2025ISMPMI
July 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Uta Paszkowski expands on the arbuscular mycorrhizal theme with a cool spatial transcriptome method to better resolve dynamics during colonization of rice.
Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules.
#2025ISMPMI
Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules.
#2025ISMPMI
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Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸
#outreach #mycosky #fungi
From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸
#outreach #mycosky #fungi
July 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸
#outreach #mycosky #fungi
From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸
#outreach #mycosky #fungi
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I'll be at @ipgsa2025.bsky.social in 10 days time - come find me at poster 102 to discuss what we've learned in rice about the role of KL & its negative regulator SMAX1 in root development, mycorrhizal symbiosis and germination, as well as our efforts to take chemical control of this pathway.
June 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I'll be at @ipgsa2025.bsky.social in 10 days time - come find me at poster 102 to discuss what we've learned in rice about the role of KL & its negative regulator SMAX1 in root development, mycorrhizal symbiosis and germination, as well as our efforts to take chemical control of this pathway.
A thread of our go-to outreach activities from @jenmcgaley.bsky.social. Worth a look if you have an event coming up!
Particular favourite: the online game, 'The Adventures of a Friendly Fungus' 👇🕹️
Particular favourite: the online game, 'The Adventures of a Friendly Fungus' 👇🕹️
How to teach kids (+ parents) the concept of mycorrhizal symbiosis? Here's a thread of things that we use @paszkowskilab.bsky.social 🧵
#outreach #fungi #plant #science
#outreach #fungi #plant #science
Festival of Plants 2025: great atmosphere, lots of visitors, and so much enthusiasm for mycorrhiza!
Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄
Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄
June 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A thread of our go-to outreach activities from @jenmcgaley.bsky.social. Worth a look if you have an event coming up!
Particular favourite: the online game, 'The Adventures of a Friendly Fungus' 👇🕹️
Particular favourite: the online game, 'The Adventures of a Friendly Fungus' 👇🕹️
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🧪🧬Should we reignite genetic manipulation attempts on #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi? Our review in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social suggests the time is ripe.
With: Midge Woodward @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @alexdallaire.bsky.social
Open access🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#scicomm
With: Midge Woodward @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @alexdallaire.bsky.social
Open access🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#scicomm
June 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
🧪🧬Should we reignite genetic manipulation attempts on #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi? Our review in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social suggests the time is ripe.
With: Midge Woodward @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @alexdallaire.bsky.social
Open access🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#scicomm
With: Midge Woodward @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @alexdallaire.bsky.social
Open access🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#scicomm
Festival of Plants 2025: great atmosphere, lots of visitors, and so much enthusiasm for mycorrhiza!
Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄
Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄
June 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Festival of Plants 2025: great atmosphere, lots of visitors, and so much enthusiasm for mycorrhiza!
Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄
Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄