Thomas Irving

Post-doc @ Crop Science Centre, Cambridge. Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, biosensors & the hormone KL.

ORCID 0000-0003-3040-4543

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I'll be at #IPGSA2025 in 10 days time - come find me at poster 102 to discuss what we've learned in rice about the role of KL & its negative regulator SMAX1 in root development, mycorrhizal symbiosis and germination, as well as our efforts to take chemical control of this pathway

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Anyway this is what google serves you as a top result for "plant uptake of fatty acids", and includes in it own LLM summaries.

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Came across a strange website that appears to be some sort of LLM generated scam product for weed growers. Interesting to see that while the LLM has hallucinated all the citations it does get the right volume for the publication year.

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https://t.co/Fo5XZLBOYr

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If you're a fan of my very intermittent posting, since Cohost has folded you can now follow me on Bsky as well, under the same handle.

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Find me tomorrow at #FOG2025 in London, with a poster on the @CropSciCentre's TRAP & Molecular Cartography investigations into intracellular interactions between rice & fungal symbionts. What can we learn by applying these exciting technologies to agricultural systems?

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Reminder that I'll be speaking 16:45 tomorrow @BiochemSoc 's Synthetic Biology UK meeting, on targeted alteration of plant environmental responses to help us optimize future food production.

#BiochemEvent

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As part of the Paszkowski lab, I focus on maximizing the benefit plants can obtain from interacting with symbiotic soil fungi, but tools for hormone detection will aid in controlling responses to the whole range of the biotic and abiotic environment.

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Mycorrhization Wednesdays, I guess?

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Fig1 - Rhizophagus irregularis (CW green) in a rice root (CW red)
Fig2 - Rice root expressing a sensor for protein stability (16 colour scale with red = stable, blue = unstable)

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Genetic blocks on hormone signaling reshaped our crop plants during the Green Revolution to dramatically improve productivity.
We hope to go further with targeted tissue-specific or environmentally-responsive alterations to optimize production.

#BiochemEvent @BiochemSoc

[Thomas Irving @EndoSymb]

As part of the Paszkowski lab, I focus on maximizing the benefit plants can obtain from interacting with symbiotic soil fungi, but tools for hormone detection will aid in controlling responses to the whole range of the biotic and abiotic environment.

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Rhizophagus really exploring some rice roots - lots of blebs of partial penetration attempts?

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#ICOM12 the team experiments with a new presentation format

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#ICOM12 @PaszkowskiLab storming the peaks

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Around Dovestone Resivouir

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We need the world's largest petri dish to find the myclial growth maximum of EcM species
#icom12

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@PaszkowskiLab is raring to go on day 1 of @ICOM_12! Looking forward to some fantastic talks, including our own @ChancellorTania sharing her single-cell mycorrhiza research 🧪🔬