I'll be talking about oaks this Thursday, 7pm at the Lisle Public Library. It's a free public event, with a lot of oak photos and oak stories... join us if you can! Registration info below: lisle.librarycalendar.com/event/chicag...

#TansleyInsight: Endophytes with #mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications Yuan et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Demain matin, conférence sur l'Arbre-Monde à l'Amphi Cuénot Muséum-Aquarium à Nancy ...

What characteristics of dead wood promote fungal species richness in forests? And how can we use this information to manage fungal biodiversity? New research on the functional diversity of dead wood in Norwegian forests provides some answers. doi.org/10.1016/j.fu... 📷 @jenninorden.bsky.social

Enriched ammonium induced by fairy ring fungi promotes the growth of grasses and sedges relying on soil microbial functions Lian et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/G6QAA2...

Root‐mycorrhizal foraging strategies shift with forest age more than with nitrogen manipulation - Ding - 2025 - Ecological Monographs - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The February cover of "Ecological Monographs" gets right to the root! This larch root & its fuzzy fungal partner were photographed as part of a study showing how roots & fungal allies shift their foraging strategies as forests age Find the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15577015...

Towards ‘digital ecology’: Advances in integrating artificial intelligence from data generation to ecological insight besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When humans create an artificial island, how do fungi colonize this new habitat? Using the Danish island Peberholm as an experimental system, a recent Fungal Ecology article examines arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal succession on new land. doi.org/10.1016/j.fu... 📷 Wikipedia

Save the date! 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions 📅 13–16 October 2026 📍 Leysin, Switzerland www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience

🌱IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award🍄 🎉Congrats to Maycon Cristiano Barbosa 🇧🇷 🏆 Latin America awardee Award supported by the New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt.bsky.social This award supports his participation with an oral presentation at #ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza

🌱 IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award 🍄 Congrats to Amara Santiesteban-Serrano 🇪🇸 🏆 Europe awardee Supported by the New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt. This award supports her participation with oral presentation at #ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza @csic.es

🌱 IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award 🍄 Congrats to Beatrice M. Bock USA 🏆 North America awardee Supported by The New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt.bsky.social This award supports her participation with oral presentation at #ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza

🌱 IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award 🍄 Congrats to Ningkang Sun 🇨🇳 🏆 Asia awardee Supported by The New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt.bsky.social This award supports her attendance at #ICOM2026, where she will give an oral presentation #Mycorrhiza

Fungal herbaria provide important baseline biodiversity data as forests change. In new work from Mader and colleagues, historic collections were used to understand how forest fungal communities may change with intensifying insect infestations of a keystone tree species. doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

Climate variability shapes the mutualistic interaction between truffle-like ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi and a mycophagous mammal nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Vous utilisez déjà Galaxy et souhaitez vous familiariser avec les méthodes et outils d’analyse bioinfo de données NGS ? #mapping #assemblage 👉Notre cycle de formation vous propose ce module d’1 jour à Jouy-en-Josas (26 mars). 📝 Inscriptions et programme sur documents.migale.inrae.fr/trainings.html

When happens to fungi when forests become farms? New research from @thecrobe.bsky.social and team shows agricultural conversion in the tropics eliminated ~80% of soil mycorrhizal fungal diversity. Open access paper: buff.ly/BsGYDht

#OurFridaySeminar: François Rineau #UHasselt on assessing #ecosystem functioning, #microbes, #crop growth, and sustainable #mitigation in three natural & non-natural ecosystems

C’est officiel ! L'INRAE recrute : @umr-iam.bsky.social propose un poste permanent de chargé(e) de recherche sur l’effet du #microbiote sur la #santé des #arbres. ➡️ Rendez-vous sur jobs.inrae.fr/concours/con... avant le 5 mars 2026 pour postuler !

It’s now official! INRAE is recruiting: @umr-iam.bsky.social is offering a permanent position as a research scientist to study the effect of #microbiota on #tree #health. Visit jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp... before March 5, 2026 to apply !

A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!

Excited to share that a chapter of my PhD is now out, just two weeks before my defense. Our study shows that agricultural expansion into native forests and grasslands drives strong biodiversity loss in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across the Andes. Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ICYMI: New online! Tree bark microbiota in climate-active gas cycling

Squirrel perspective

Bonne journée 🌞😉

What enables a fungus to invade a mammal host? @marco-guerreiro.bsky.social unravels signatures of translation adaptation among pathogenic and non-pathogenic species of Trichosporonales. See more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excellent snow on the Vercors Plateau in the Alps.

I'm delighted to inform you that our paper "Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus" was published in IMA Fungus. A long standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan at RISF, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou: imafungus.pensoft.net/articles.php...

What is the global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)? A recent paper in Fungal Ecology by @steffilutz.bsky.social and colleagues provides updated estimates of AMF richness from 4,733 sampling sites across the globe doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

Very pretty ectomycorrhiza on a beech root! During these winter months, I longingly gaze at photos of tree roots 🎶 Shot by miki @michela-audisio.bsky.social #mycorrhiza #forestecol

China’s Three-North Shelterbelt afforestation program has transformed the margins of the Taklamakan Desert into a carbon sink, potentially capable of removing nearly 59 million metric tons of CO2 per year if extended across the entire desert. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/gttY50Y1gLI

Bel article de vulgarisation publié fin décembre dans "Le Temps" 🗞⬇️ Il met en lumière nos résultats sur l'hypothèse d'un escalator vers l'extinction de la biodiversité en 🏔 avec peu d'éléments allant dans ce sens pour l'instant mais plutôt une homogénéisation le long des versants shorturl.at/AJk9H

On the cover of our #LatestIssue: Fluorescent confocal #microscopy showing spatial expression patterns of AtSWEET1 in an embryo isolated from a germinating #Arabidopsis thaliana seed. Image courtesy of Xueyi Xue. 📖 See Chen et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share our new investigation of Prototaxites! We found no support for a fungal affinity and instead suggest it is best considered an entirely extinct complex eukaryotic lineage Great team effort @transitionalform.bsky.social Corentin Loron, and many others! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oh no! I've always liked the idea that Prototaxites was a fungus.... 😅 But it looks like it wasn't.

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📖Published! Soil depth-dependent relationships between biodiversity and function in subtropical forest conversion 🌴 Our results indicate that the effect of forest conversion on biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships depends on soil depth🌱 Read more: buff.ly/ICFq3Ya

New paper out in Global Change Biology Cheng et al. Stressor Combinations Shift Soil Microbial Communities From Rare to Unknown Taxa and Alter Genomic Strategies w/ @manudelbaq.bsky.social & others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What fungi live in the leaves of Pando, the massive aspen clone in Utah, USA? And how do they vary across the spatial extent of this 43 hectare clonal plant? Find out in this article in our latest issue of Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu... (photo by US Forest Service)

Extensive horizontal transfer of transposable elements shapes fungal mobilomes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🍄Transposon traffic in the mycocosmos🍄 Fascinating work reveals extensive horizontal TE transfer across fungi (@jromeijn.bsky.social, Iñigo Bañales & @mfseidl.bsky.social; doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...). I wrote a Dispatch to prime non-specialists,check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... #TEworldwide

Les plantes sont bien plus bavardes que vous ne le pensez theconversation.com/les-plantes-...

Les plantes aussi ont un microbiote – pourrait-on s’en servir pour se passer de phytosanitaires ? theconversation.com/les-plantes-...

You can also enjoy Paola Bonfante's wonderful Linnean Society lecture "Botanical Triumph in a 16th Century Italian Villa" youtu.be/nKwA9xK-oGg?...

My work characterizing the traits of pyrophilous fungi via genomics, transcriptomics, and bioassays! @dylan-j-enright.bsky.social @petehomyak.bsky.social @mjwilkins.bsky.social funded by @departmentofenergy.bsky.social @usdagov.bsky.social #fire #fungi #science @pnas.org

Flower aromas use beauty to interweave plants, insects, and humans. There's more than enough hard stuff in life, especially now, so let's accept the flowers' invitations when we can 💚💔 Wishing everyone a few moments of interconnected beauty this weekend, wherever you are. #breadandjusticeandroses

Wang et al. comprehensively analyze macrofungal spatiotemporal pattern in China at the order level taking Hymenochaetales as the exemplar. doi.org/10.59717/j.x... #biodiversity #evolutionary #fungal