On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Orchids belong to one of the largest families of flowering plants and their survival in nature is intrinsically bound to the symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi. The study of orchid mycorrhiza is particularly complex because of the peculiar life cycle and diverse trophic strategies of these plants. We have been investigating several aspects of orchid mycorrhizal biology, from diversity and distribution of fungal symbionts to the molecular bases of plant-fungus interactions, in juvenile as well as adult stages of terrestrial orchid species. Despite the peculiarities of this cheating symbiosis, many molecular markers are shared between orchid mycorrhiza and other endosymbiotic interactions.
