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Life, Earth & Environment Seminar Series When: Wednesday 15 th July, 12 – 1 pm Where: Natural Resources Building, Lecture Theatre 1 (EM1) Professor Jim Trappe, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, USA Over the last 80 million years, Australia’s separa7on from other con7nents and it’s changing to ever warmer and drier climate has selected for endemic taxa adapted to hot, dry climates and wildfire. The major Australian tree species depend on mycorrhizal fungi as is true for the rest of the world, but unusual numbers of Australian mycorrhizal fungi have evolved adapta7ons to its climate. Ectomycorrhizal fungi common to the Myrtaceae and Casuarinaceae include an extraordinary diversity of truffle species that fruit below ground for spore produc7on. These are protected from heat, Contact: Dr Rose Andrew: [email protected] Dr Emma SherraN: [email protected] Biography Professor Trappe is the Mycology Master. He earned his B.Sc. in Forest Management at the University of Washington, his Masters at the State University of New York, and his Ph.D also at UW. He has wriNen many books on Fungi. Why Australia needs truffles: coevolved interacOons of fungi, animals and plants in an era of climate change drought and fire that can kill aboveground mushrooms. Moreover, truffles are a major food resource for many animals. This evolu7onary trend offers important possibili7es for con7nuing produc7vity of fungi, animals and plants interac7ng during warming climate.
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Life, Earth & Environment Seminar Series
When: Wednesday 15th July, 12 – 1 pm Where: Natural Resources Building, Lecture Theatre 1 (EM1)
Professor Jim Trappe, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, USA
Over the last 80 million years, Australia’s separa7on from other con7nents and it’s changing to ever warmer and drier climate has selected for endemic taxa adapted to hot, dry climates and wildfire. The major Australian tree species depend on mycorrhizal fungi as is true for the rest of the world, but unusual numbers of Australian mycorrhizal fungi have evolved adapta7ons to its climate. Ectomycorrhizal fungi common to the Myrtaceae and Casuarinaceae include an extraordinary diversity of truffle species that fruit below ground for spore produc7on. These are protected from heat,
Contact: Dr Rose Andrew: [email protected] Dr Emma SherraN: [email protected]
Biography Professor Trappe is the Mycology Master. He earned his B.Sc. in Forest Management at the University of Washington, his Masters at the State University of New York, and his Ph.D also at UW. He has wriNen many books on Fungi.
Why Australia needs truffles: co-‐evolved interacOons of fungi, animals and plants in an era of climate change
drought and fire that can kill above-‐ground mushrooms. Moreover, truffles are a major food resource for many animals. This evolu7onary trend offers important possibili7es for con7nuing produc7vity of fungi, animals and plants interac7ng during warming climate.
