My ARC DECRA project investigates the impacts of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on micronutrient bioavailability in cereal crops. I am particularly interested in how AM fungi that colonise rice and wheat plants, affect the production of phytate in grain. Phytate is an “anti-nutrient” and its concentration in grain has important implications for how well zinc and iron are absorbed in the human gut when we consume rice and wheat products.