May-II, 2019

This month in what we are reading, Clara Peña from the Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas Sinchi – Colombia, will tell us about mycorrhizal associations in cassava and their importance for subsistence farmers in the tropics.

Link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucj5ZEhx9xk

Her recent paper “Distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities associate with different manioc landraces and Amazonian soils” can be found here:

If you have any questions to Clara, please leave a comment or write to her directly!

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