Investigating the mechanisms and outcomes of ectomycorrhizal mutualism between plants and fungi, from genes to ecosystems.
We are a research group in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of California, Davis. We use tools from molecular biology, physiology, and ecology to understand how plant roots and soil fungi cooperate, and how that cooperation affects forests.
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Understanding how small-scale mycorrhizal mechanisms affect landscape-scale processes. (View of oak savannah from Grass Mountain, outside of Santa Barbara, CA.)