{"id":6660,"date":"2024-07-02T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/introtoflora.community.uaf.edu\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2024-07-02T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:55:02","slug":"belated-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/belated-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greetings BIOL190 students, my name is <strong>Cuyler Bleecker<\/strong> (my first name is William but I go by my middle name Cuyler) and I&#8217;ll be helping Steffi with grading for the class. Apologies for the late post, I am doing my best to get caught up with the class after a delayed start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m back in Fairbanks this summer, hoping to finish up lab work for a collaborative independent research project at the UA Museum of the North herbarium (ALA). The project involves documenting the presence of bryophilous fungi on specimens of the liverwort genus <em>Gymnomitrion. <\/em><strong>Bryophilous fungi<\/strong> are fungi that are parasites and\/or epiphytes (plants (or in this case, fungi) that grow on other plants) on bryophytes. <strong>Bryophytes<\/strong> (<em>sensu lato<\/em> &#8211; in the broad sense of the word) are &#8220;non-vascular&#8221; plants belonging one of three taxonomic Divisions: the mosses (Division Bryophyta, or Bryophyta <em>sensu stricto<\/em>, in the strict sense), liverworts (Division Marchantiophyta) and hornworts (Division Anthocerotophyta). Below is a micrograph of one of the early finds from the project &#8211; the tiny bryophilous ascomycete <em>Briochiton microscopicu<strong>s<\/strong><\/em>. The brown spheroidal looking thing is the fruiting body of the fungus which is cracked open and the minute, translucent lemon-shaped spores can be seen spilling out. This little chap was found growing on a leaf of a specimen of <em>Gymnomitrion apiculatum<\/em> from Alaska housed in our herbarium (ALA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/introtoflora.community.uaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/766\/2024\/07\/Fungi-from-ALA-Gymnomitrion-specimens-plate-copy-1024x663.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6912\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope you have been enjoying the class so far, excited to see everyone&#8217;s work! Best, Cuyler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings BIOL190 students, my name is Cuyler Bleecker (my first name is William but I go by my middle name Cuyler) and I&#8217;ll be helping Steffi with grading for the class. Apologies for the late post, I am doing my best to get caught up with the class after a delayed start. I&#8217;m back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}