Photos

 

Porter lab working in the WSUV greenhouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field site at the Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve in Southern California.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medicago polymorpha seedlings in the greenhouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field site at the Box Springs Natural Reserve near the University of California, Riverside

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lupinus lepidus primary succession with moss leading up toward the crater on Mount Saint Helens, WA

 

 

 

 

 

Rhizobium bacteria isolated from root nodules

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patches of physiologically stressful serpentine soils in a grassland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Serpentine soil outcrop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field collected root nodules on Acmispon wrangelianus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medicago polymorpha in the greenhouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

McLaughlin Reserve field site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Variable pod morphology on Medicago polymorpha

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fitness of Medicago polymorph depends on the number and quality of symbionts in different soil samples

 

 

 

 

 

Lupinus bicolor patches in coastal dunes at the Bodega Marine Lab