{"id":31,"date":"2021-07-29T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:39:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:39:40","slug":"tamarisk-and-fungi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/projects-and-activities\/tamarisk-and-fungi\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Fungal Root Endophytes Contribute to the Success of Invasive Tamarisk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Do Fungal Root Endophytes Contribute to the Success of Invasive Tamarisk?<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Purpose:<\/strong> Tamarisk (Salt Cedar) is a highly invasive species to riparian areas of the Southwest, however, little is known about the fungal root associations tamarisk forms. This study aims to determine what function fungal root endophytes play in the life of tamarisk. Understanding the fungal associations will help broaden our understanding of tamarisk and its success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plant species:<\/strong> Tamarix spp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants:<\/strong><br \/>\nAli Schuessler, Master\u2019s student NAU<br \/>\nDr. Catherine Gehring, Professor and Associate Chair &amp; Director of Graduate Studies<br \/>\nJulia Hull, Ph.D candidate NAU<br \/>\nRon Deckert, Lab associate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborations\/Funding:<\/strong> Meriam Powell and The Lucking Family Professorship<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5210\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-portrait-image wp-image-5210\" src=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/Tamarisk-and-Fungi_1-300x422.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Schuessler examining tamarisk cuttings\" width=\"300\" height=\"422\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Schuessler examining tamarisk cuttings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Fungal Root Endophytes Contribute to the Success of Invasive Tamarisk? Purpose: Tamarisk (Salt Cedar) is a highly invasive species to riparian areas of the Southwest, however, little is known about the fungal root associations tamarisk forms. This study aims to determine what function fungal root endophytes play in the life of tamarisk. Understanding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/232"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}