Boreal forest soils are major carbon reservoirs. But how does soil biodiversity shape the fate of this carbon? Thanks to the Finnish Cultural Foundation, @sanslan.bsky.social and I will untangle how soil fauna–fungi interactions influence carbon pools in Finland. #skr2026 skr.fi/en/news/trac...

Martin Zobel is the corresponding author of the recently published #TansleyReview ‘#Symbiont plasticity as a driver of plant success.’ 📖 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #mycorrhiza #PlantScience

#TansleyReview: Mycelial dynamics in arbuscular mycorrhizal #fungi Vasilis Kokkoris 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

We’ve posted a new preprint providing evidence that endophytic fungi facilitate resource transfer through common mycelial networks. A neat aspect of our study is that we measured fungal functional changes when connected to more than one plant, not just the plants! doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 A tangentially-festive sample this week: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonising the root cells of Ivy 🌿🎄☃️ #mycosky #festive #fungi

Cladonia on a stick, among a patch of cottongrass. Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #wildflower

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi boost plant resilience by remodelling the plant-pathogen membrane interface Check-out the latest paper from @alexguyon.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social News article www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/arbuscu...

Summer brings its own delights in the Aussie bush, like the beautiful moodjar tree (or WA Christmas tree), colourful Christmas spiders and other delights 🌿🌱 #ozflora #ausinverts #wildoz #mistletoe www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Precipitation increase promotes soil organic carbon formation and stability via the mycorrhizal fungal pathway | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #stableisotopes

Turns out fungi aren’t as plastic as we might think, their responses to grazers are much more species-specific. Very cool work from the fungal wizard @aguilart.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

✨ It was a pleasure to have @manjeet786.bsky.social from @westsyduhie.bsky.social join our symposium, presenting both a poster and a speed talk. He shared fascinating insights into how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can—and cannot—support sorghum in the fight against charcoal rot. #ESA2025

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land. The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Paper just out @newphyt.bsky.social Ajaz et al. Maximum entropy networks show that plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associations are anti-nested and modular w/ Tancredi Caruso nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.

Research landscape of experiments on #GlobalChange effects on #mycorrhizas A #Letter by Lehmann et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

It's been a busy time in the Paszkowski lab! First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025... And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Loyalty and nutrient trade… University of Western Australia researchers show how plants and fungi keep their partnerships alive—even in the face of cheating 🍃 ❤️ 🍄 #Mycorrhiza #Evolution

Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi in South America 📖 buff.ly/ZgIX5IC #TansleyInsight by @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social @uh.edu @WileyPlantSci #PlantSci Image source: Colección y Archivo Visual Patagónico; Photographer: Antonio Lynch; courtesy of Federico Silin.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) The path towards a unified trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Extremely proud of Eileen Enderle for publishing her second PhD paper in @journalofecology.bsky.social !! She shows that the impact that drought has on plant-soil feedback is mediated by soil bacterial and fungal communities. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great to collaborate with @DomainOfScience on this new video, with our scientists inputting on the fascinating map of fungi 🍄🌍 From medicines to forests, fungi are a kingdom of life shaping our world. Discover just how important they are in 20 minutes 👇 ow.ly/u4fc50X2JRo

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