April-II, 2020

What we are reading in April-II, 2020

 

By: Daniel Acosta and Benoît Perez

This month in “What we are reading”, Daniel Acosta, a bachelor student from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, interviews Benoît Perez, a PhD student at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, will tell us about the intriguing evolutionary history of mycoheterotrophic plants associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

His paper “Cheating in arbuscular mycorrhizal mutualism: a network and phylogenetic analysis of mycoheterotrophy” can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16474

Watch the interview here:

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/trmJWxYwKr0

If you have any questions to Benoît, please leave a comment or write to him directly!

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