Our partner Andrea Patriarca at Cranfield University shared with us a sneak peek into the progress of analysing the impact of climate change related environmental factors on fungal ecology and physiology in vitro.

As their task moves towards completion, they are generating new ecological and physiological data on key mycotoxigenic fungi under controlled conditions, with particular focus on the effects of climate change (CC) drivers. Specifically, the task aims to investigate the impact of environmental factors associated with CC, such as temperature, water activity and CO₂ concentration, on fungal growth and mycotoxin production.

The images below show their team working in the lab on the in vitro Climate Change experiment.

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