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@MycoBloom

MycoBloom provides locally-adapted mycorrhizal fungi from the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest and beyond. Dr. Liz Koziol maintains this account. @lizkoziol

 Kansas, USA
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Joined December 2014
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Real-world results from the classroom Students grew milkweed with/without MycoBloom inoculant and found: “MycoBloom treated swamp milkweed sprouted sooner and is much taller!” — Lisa Ball, Environmental Club Sponsor, Lawrence High School #Mycorrhizae #Milkweed #STEMeducation
Side-by-side comparison of swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) seedlings in a high school science classroom. The left tray, treated with MycoBloom fungal inoculant, shows taller, more vigorous plants, while the right untreated control tray has shorter, less developed seedlings. The image documents a student classroom experiment comparing plant growth under identical conditions with and without fungal inoculation.

ALT Side-by-side comparison of swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) seedlings in a high school science classroom. The left tray, treated with MycoBloom fungal inoculant, shows taller, more vigorous plants, while the right untreated control tray has shorter, less developed seedlings. The image documents a student classroom experiment comparing plant growth under identical conditions with and without fungal inoculation.

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MycoBloom's work with native AMF for restoration is in the news @theguardianfeed along with the research of @lizkoziol, @FungiInvam collection, and others: Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing share.google/6PkmV9DseFlQBA6…
Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing

Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing

These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close

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New paper alert! Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds academic.oup.com/femsle/arti… #amf #mycorrhizae #restoration #biodiversity
Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland successional stage, floristic quality...

Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland successional stage, floristic quality...

Native mycorrhizal fungi enhance prairie restoration by boosting native plant diversity, supporting late-successional species, and reducing invasive plants

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Good news! Our article is a top 10 #TopCitedArticle in @JAppliedEcology for the past two years! Read "Manipulating plant microbiomes in the field" besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… Other Authors @JonathanTBauer J. Bever, E. Duell, K. Hickman, G. House, P. Schultz, @AliceTipton & G. Wilson
Image from Liz Koziol (@lizkoziol)
Image from Liz Koziol (@lizkoziol)
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Happy holidays! Hope you enjoy this #amf spore tree.
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Celebrating a proud moment for @mycobloom! Our leader @lizkoziol has clinched a prestigious award for women in soil science. 🏆 Kudos to Liz for her outstanding contributions in fungal research! 👏 #SoilScience #Mycorrhizae #WomenInSTEM thestoryexchange.org/liz-koz…
Her Startup Aims to Revolutionize Soil Health

Her Startup Aims to Revolutionize Soil Health

In Kansas, Elizabeth Koziol has turned a fondness for fungus into a thriving business, MycoBloom.

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We 💕 our #fungi. Thanks! We admire and appreciate your beautiful AMF photography as well, especially the colonization images.
Takeshi Sentoku (千徳 毅） (@takeshi_sentoku) profile pictureTakeshi Sentoku (千徳 毅）@takeshi_sentoku12 Jul 2023
自分にはないめちゃお洒落なセンス・・ @MycoBloom
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Mycorrhizal fungi can store 1/3 of yearly carbon emissions. Not only do they absolutely deserve to be considered in our conservation policy, but they should be our focus. eurekalert.org/news-releases…
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Full article by @heidi_j_hawkins cell.com/current-biology/ful…
Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool

Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool

Hawkins et al. estimate the global allocation of carbon from plants to the mycelium of mycorhrizal fungi, and explore the mechanisms by which this occurs.

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Mycobloom in action! #prairie #mycorrhizae #nativeplant
KU Field Station (@KUFieldStation) profile pictureKU Field Station@KUFieldStation11 May 2023
Plants + mycorrhizal fungi = 💚 Students from Environmental Studies Capstone class just completed a planting of native species at the here-ing labyrinth. Students inoculated each new plant with @MycoBloom! #kufieldstation #lawrenceks #lawrencekansas #obfs #prairie #restoration
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Image from KU Field Station (@KUFieldStation)
Image from KU Field Station (@KUFieldStation)
Image from KU Field Station (@KUFieldStation)
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@mycobloom A beautiful spore pile from our collection of #amf isolates to brighten your day. Photo by @lizkoziol
Spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

ALT Spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

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Happy #spring! Our 2023 batch of #mycorrhizal inocula is available for your seedling and planting needs. 🎉 #soilhealth #organicgardening #springplanting
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Establishing a quality management framework for commercial inoculants containing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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There is hope! Native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi promote native grassland diversity and suppress weeds 4 years following inoculation by Koziol et al. In Restoration Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi promote native grassland diversity and suppress weeds 4 years...

Native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi promote native grassland diversity and suppress weeds 4 years...

Restoration quality of native prairie can be improved by reintroducing key organisms from the native plant microbiome such as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Here, we assess whether the positive...

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#MonarchButterflies now internationally endangered! Time to consider how #AMF and #mycorrhizae influence Monarch's plant hosts. #Milkweed growth, latex, and survival can be inhibited by commercial AMF but improved with native AMF. Important implications for native plant nurseries
Ecosphere (@ESAEcosphere) profile pictureEcosphere@ESAEcosphere7 Jun 2022
Mycorrhizal #fungi can have major impacts on #milkweed growth & latex production - but the impact's magnitude and direction depends on the particular plant & fungal partners doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4052 #Mycorrhizae #OpenAccess #NSFFunded @NSF @lizkoziol @UnivOfKansas
Average effect of inoculation on milkweed growth for all species, and the growth of each individual milkweed species. Shading on bars represents the different inoculation treatments of native AM fungi and noninoculated

ALT Average effect of inoculation on milkweed growth for all species, and the growth of each individual milkweed species. Shading on bars represents the different inoculation treatments of native AM fungi and noninoculated

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Do fungi move in restorations? Its slow, but some fungi spread. It can even increase nearby plant diversity over time. Check out @AliceTipton et al.! Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Taxa Show Variable Patterns of Micro-Scale Dispersal in Prairie Restoration frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Great interview with researcher @lizkoziol & others about the role of native fungi in the success of native prairie plants. dailyyonder.com/restoring-na…

Restoring Native Prairie Plants? You May Be Missing One Key Ingredient—Fungi | The Daily Yonder

The North American prairie once covered 170 million acres, making it the largest ecosystem on the continent, as well as the most biologically diverse.

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@MycoBloom in the news!
Kansas Bio Survey & Center for Ecological Research (@KUEcoResearch) profile pictureKansas Bio Survey & Center for Ecological Research@KUEcoResearch14 Jun 2022
Great interview with researcher @lizkoziol & others about the role of native fungi in the success of native prairie plants. dailyyonder.com/restoring-na…

Restoring Native Prairie Plants? You May Be Missing One Key Ingredient—Fungi | The Daily Yonder

The North American prairie once covered 170 million acres, making it the largest ecosystem on the continent, as well as the most biologically diverse.

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Check out my new paper-Native mycorrhizal fungi improve #milkweed growth, latex, and establishment while some commercial fungi may inhibit them esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi… #AMF #prairerestoration #mycorrhizae
Native mycorrhizal fungi improve milkweed growth, latex, and establishment while some commercial...

Native mycorrhizal fungi improve milkweed growth, latex, and establishment while some commercial...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are root symbionts that can facilitate plant growth and influence plant communities by altering plant interactions with herbivores. Therefore, AM fungi could be...

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Pics from an experiment measuring which fungi improve plant secondary compounds #mycorrhize #cbd #growyourown #fieldresearch #cannabis
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