Other Cool Science

Work that will change your understanding of the natural world!

Think you know where the impacts of a single organism's genetics stops?  Think again!

Dr.'s Thomas Whitham, Catherine Gehring, and Gery Allan - community genetics and plant & fungal ecology:

 "A thousand invisible cords" movie:   http://vimeo.com/40615050 

Fungi are just those things you don't like to eat when you are a kid, right?  Um....not so much.

Paul Stamets on how fungi can save the world: 

https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world 

Think you know what separates plants & animals?  Think again! - Dr. Monica Gagliano and plant cognition studies:  http://www.monicagagliano.com/

Plants hunt for food?  What? - Dr. James Cahill and root movement:  http://grad.biology.ualberta.ca/labs/cahill/

Plants wage chemical warfare and gang-up on each other?  What's that now? - Dr. Ray Callaway and facilitation / invasion ecology: https://www.umt.edu/academics/faculty/ray-callaway.php 

Plants warn their neighbors to prepare for chemical warfare?  Say what now?  - Dr. Ian Baldwin and chemical ecology: https://www.ice.mpg.de/ext/index.php?id=hopa&pers=iaba2016&d=itb&li=ice&pg=publ 

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