Anita Enriquez:
Anita is an advanced undergraduate at UNM. Anita was selected to participate in 2 years of sponsored research experience supported by the MARC program at UNM. She recently completed her second year of research in the Taylor lab. Anita has engaged in two projects on interactions between orchids and their mycorrhizal fungi. In the first project, she is seeking to characterize mycorrhizal specificity in the riparian orchid Epipactis gigantea. This orchid is of interest due to strong preference for seeps and spring-fed habitats throughout the Western United States, including a number of desert springs. The second project aims to identify methods to establish tripartite symbioses in the greenhouse between the non-photosynthetic orchid Corallorhiza striata, its fungal partner, Tomentella fuscocinerea, and conifer seedlings with which T. fuscocinerea simultaneously forms ectomycorrhizae.
Anita is currently taking a break from school and pursuing her combined art-biology interests:
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Presentations & Publications
Enriquez, A.C., Taylor D. L. “Montane orchids steal from their neighbors, but are they harmful?” Poster presentation at the 8th International Conference on Mycorrhizae, Flagstaff, AZ Aug. 2015.
Anita is an advanced undergraduate at UNM. Anita was selected to participate in 2 years of sponsored research experience supported by the MARC program at UNM. She recently completed her second year of research in the Taylor lab. Anita has engaged in two projects on interactions between orchids and their mycorrhizal fungi. In the first project, she is seeking to characterize mycorrhizal specificity in the riparian orchid Epipactis gigantea. This orchid is of interest due to strong preference for seeps and spring-fed habitats throughout the Western United States, including a number of desert springs. The second project aims to identify methods to establish tripartite symbioses in the greenhouse between the non-photosynthetic orchid Corallorhiza striata, its fungal partner, Tomentella fuscocinerea, and conifer seedlings with which T. fuscocinerea simultaneously forms ectomycorrhizae.
Anita is currently taking a break from school and pursuing her combined art-biology interests:
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Presentations & Publications
Enriquez, A.C., Taylor D. L. “Montane orchids steal from their neighbors, but are they harmful?” Poster presentation at the 8th International Conference on Mycorrhizae, Flagstaff, AZ Aug. 2015.