Very interesting paper on fungal [necromass] traits and soil organic matter priming onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ecology (definitely) matters! Check out this beautiful book that also features our committee member @frewecologist.bsky.social interview! Part 5 Forgotten species: species that are often overlooked The pivotal role of mycorrhizal fungi – Dr Adam Frew 👏👏👏

Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Agricultural disturbance reduces arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and biomass by excluding specialist species doi.org/10.1111/nph.... Vahter et al. focus on investigating biomass–diversity relationships in the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal group.

What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15 2️⃣ > 400 million years ago, mycorrhizal fungi enabled plants to transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments, making life on land possible. See the top 10 list (buff.ly/77S4PQF ) and follow for new fungal facts.

🌿 RESEARCH 🌿 Alfalfa genotypes with thick roots, increased exudate concentration, and mycorrhizal colonization under low P environments have high P utilization efficiency, opening up the potential for breeding for P-efficient lines - Fan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Over 70% of Earth's ecoregions have yet to be sampled for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. By analyzing eDNA sample locations, we found most soils are unsampled. Drylands are especially overlooked despite covering almost 1/3 of the Earth's terrestrial land. academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...

New paper out today. Fluid mechanics within mycorrhizal networks: exploring concepts, traits, and methodologies I ask: How do fungal networks move water, nutrients and signals underground? Why does this matter? See thread ⬇️ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper: ‘Soil inoculation improves tree seedling growth in substrates containing bitumen, but the effect varies by species and inoculum source’ led by James Franklin @jamesfranklin, a past PhD from my group. 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Microbiome-facilitated plant nutrient acquisition in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

New Article: "Arbuscular mycorrhizal association regulates global root–seed coordination" rdcu.be/eBmpX Global positive correlation between root diameter and seed size, driven by dual roles of arbuscular mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake and pathogen defence.

My new paper is out! 🧪🦠 Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland restoration successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic... Why microbes matter in restoration 🧵

📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝 We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors! We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... cc @teamthomma.bsky.social

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Paper just out by Lehmann et al. Research landscape of experiments on global change effects on mycorrhizas A systematic mapping of all experiments on this topic...collaboration of several postdocs and BSc students in the lab. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

One single tree can host up to 1 trillion bacteria on its wood. The hyphosphere microbiome seems to be fundamental for mycorrhizal functioning. I see things like this and wonder, how some colleagues still doubt about #Holobionts being units of selection? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“…when organisms interact can largely determine how they interact.” #Viewpoint: Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among #bacteria, ectomycorrhizal #fungi, and land #trees By Louis Berrios 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📰Published📰 An army beneath the roots: how native diversity, nutrients, and invader density shape microbial defenses against plant invasion🌱 buff.ly/4zl9FgI 🧪🌍

The final version is out in @newphyt.bsky.social Concurrent common fungal networks formed by different guilds of fungi I wonder if we will see more research on common fungal networks formed by other fungi... nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our paper mapping plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity correlations is out! Relationships are weak at the global level, but both positive and negative at smaller scales. Plants are not always proxies for fungi — fungi need their own conservation focus @spun.earth @ethz.ch doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Our new global study led by @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social is now out in @pnas.org. TLDR: Certain spore traits were linked to climate AND species range sizes! YES we can use traits to gain insight into env adaptations for microbes. #mycorrhizas #spores #NSFfunded www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

2.8 billion mycorrhizal DNA sequences, 130 countries, one global map. Explore Underground Atlas at buff.ly/ovvwQ7W and watch our full-length explainer on YouTube for a behind the scenes look into our research: buff.ly/FEvCQwm

More than 90% of the planet’s below-the-surface fungi are not found in protected parts of the globe, according to a new study. scim.ag/3J0uwJ9

Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵

Lots of intriguing results with this new study by Kranabetter et al. including that ‘Peroxidase activity under an EM host was low and equivalent to an AM host on more productive sites and only diverged with increasingly limited soil fertility’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Intense farming weighs heavily on soil quality! 🌱 Meet arbuscular mycorrhizal #fungi (AMF)🍄, symbionts that help plants acquire nutrients. Rog et al. explore which soils benefit most from AMF in #FEMSMicrobiolLett. @idorog.bsky.social @steffilutz.bsky.social @sfbender.bsky.social buff.ly/tblsBb1

The database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Australia is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... You can access data summaries via the website www.ausamf.com We have data from 610 sites with data from another 500 locations to be added by the end of the year! Thanks to all collaborators

Great to see this mammoth effort by @frewecologist.bsky.social et al finally published! AusAMF: The Database of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities in Australia - Frew - 2025 - Global Ecology and Biogeography - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out from the Cheeke Lab led by @raeberner.bsky.social with @balachaudhary.bsky.social & Geoff Zahn. Congrats Rae! academic.oup.com/femsle/advan...

New paper out in SBB: Harnessing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities for ecological restoration: a conceptual framework Nice collaboration with the lab of Baodong Chen, including first author and current postdoc in our group in Berlin, Wei. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our new paper: Origin matters: mycorrhizal growth response and induced resistance to pathogens depend on mycorrhizal and pathogen source, where we show that mycorrhizal induced resistance occurs within native plant species 🌱 @newphyt.bsky.social

New paper out! @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Led by @aguilart.bsky.social We argue mycelial network connectivity can define functional groups of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. We explore how different fungi balance efficiency vs. resilience. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Role in Plant Disease Control: A State-of-the-Art - ScienceDirect

Spent last week at the microscope 🔬✨, and seeing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi up close for the first time—hyphae, arbuscules, vesicles—was absolutely mind-blowing. Small but mighty partners of plant roots 🌿. Sharing a few of my favourite shots. #Mycorrhiza #fungi

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

We often measure AM fungal colonisation assuming it tells us something about function. But… what does it tell us? A short Letter where I ask what root colonisation really means for plant growth, P uptake, and defence. #Mycorrhiza #fungi #plantmicrobiome nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...