lizkoziol.bsky.social
🦠 Mycorrhizal ecologist @ University of Kansas
🍄 Curator @invam.bsky.social
🌎 @mycobloom.bsky.social
https://elizabethkoziol.wixsite.com/lizkoziol
Prairies, AMF, microbial inoculants, restoration, conservation, sustainable ag, metabolites, NbS
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So true
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Hi Bala! invam.bsky.social and I would love to be included
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Well, I spoke too soon—turns out all federal grants are now on hold starting tomorrow. What an absolute mess. I guess I'll be on mandatory unpaid vacation?
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Happy New Year to you too, Sidney!
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😍
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I fully believe in the power of beneficial inoculants. They can work! But they have to be alive and many products are not viable. Sadly, your story is the norm.
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Awesome Sidney!
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Sure thing!
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It was awesome getting USFWS, TNC, Native Lands, KC Wildlands, GHF, and JCPRD together among others. We don’t have enough local seed available, and it’s only going to get better working together.
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Added!
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Of course!
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Sure!
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Gotcha!
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Absolutely!
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Ohh sounds neat! Adding you now Keith.
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Sure Tom, added.
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Of course Sydney, I've got you added now!
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Absolutely Edith! Loved your soil chip paper by the way.
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Other neat myco packs:
🍄Mycology go.bsky.app/FYRJn6M
🌎Mycorrhizal Ecology go.bsky.app/bqwe5h
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Hello, can I join the list if there is still room?
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Neat list, can I join!
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Without checking product contents, you're probably getting a subpar product—sad but true (and I say this as an AMF business owner 🙃). That's hard to do. I hope research like mine pushes for industry reform to protect consumers and give them reliable access to high-quality products that work.
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Some companies make an effort, but viability is a concern. These products have #mycorrhizal spores, but they die during shipping. What’s worse? Some claim high propagule counts but have almost no spores, dead or alive. Shipping issues can be fixed but inaccurate labels may need regulatory pressure.
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Indeed! I'm also a Curator at @invam.bsky.social , and many send us root images of research samples they are hoping are colonized by commercial products-and they aren't. It's so disappointing for their work when a treatment fails. Always check products *before* your application. INVAM can help.
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Thanks James! It's free to read at @newphyt.bsky.social while it's in early view form.
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The paper is in New Phytologist and that image pops up because it is the issue cover image associated with the shared article link.
Crops assessed in the our study included corn, tomato, leek, sorghum, carrot, an ornamental tree, and lettuce. Definitely no Arabidopsis 👍.
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💸👨🌾 Extrapolated globally, $876M of the $995M global mycorrhizal inoculant market may be wasted on junk products. Good news: Academic research lab-grown fungi outperform commercial products 5X! Quality control is key, including realistic propagule counts! #SustainableFarming #agroecology #microbes