![Graduate student Ian Mounts examines whether mycorrhizal networks can ameliorate plant drought stress](https://jbaxter.irt.csus.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ian-research2.jpg)
You may know that plants are colonized by mycorrhizal fungi in a symbiotic mutualism. But did you know that individual plants are connected to one another…
![Graduate student Dan Lenz studies how belowground fungi help plants defend against herbivores](https://jbaxter.irt.csus.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/IMG_3029-2.jpeg)
You may know that plants can signal neighbors when they are damaged by herbivores. And that they do this by releasing a chemical signal, such as a volatile…
![Graduate Student Publishes Article in Ecological Restoration](https://jbaxter.irt.csus.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Restoration-Ecol-470x140.jpg)
Carolina Fonseca, a former graduate student in my lab, recently publish her Master’s thesis research in Ecological Restoration, a premiere peer review journal in the field. The title of the…