Cool paper [in french] about cushion plants, a morphological adaptation to high/dry environments. A pity they don't mention my favourites, the quite extreme Andean Llareta, and the New Zealand sheep plant:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yareta
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoulia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushion...
We are excited to welcome 38 New Investigators to the JGI for 2026!
Learn more about their research here: https://jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/jgi-announces-2026-new-investigator-portfolio
Details on the New Investigator call: jointgeno.me/CSPnewPI
@berkeleylab.lbl.gov @biosci.lbl.gov
Pourquoi les végétaux des milieux extrêmes sont-ils souvent en forme de boule ?
theconversation.com/pourquoi-les...
📰Published📰Fungal partnerships and forest futures: how soil microbes shape tree seedling survival🌱
buff.ly/fcf9W3W
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Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects www.nature.com/articles/d41...
From the paper it seems like Phaeolus schweinitzii is the correct name for specimens from Europe
Need to annotate transposons in fungal genomes? 🧬
Good news #MycoMobilome is now live! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/narg...
Access the sequences through our Zenodo community (you can also contribute seqs with credit), and synchronisation with @dfam.bsky.social!
w/ @danielcroll.bsky.social
Please share widely! We think MycoMobilome can go a long way to support high-quality TE annotations across fungi!
Also, try it on your favorite 🍄 genome and tell us what you think 😉
Entretien passionnant avec Marc-André Selosse (@isyeb.mnhn.fr) dans le Grand Face-à-Face samedi dernier.
"Nous sommes nés dans la biodiversité et c'est en la maintenant que nous pourrons vivre mieux demain et transmettre un monde fonctionnel à nos enfants"
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Out Now! Phenogenomics reveals the ecology and evolution of Trichoderma fungi for sustainable agriculture #MicroSky
Flore endémique des Pyrénées : vers un risque de déclin massif d’ici la fin du siècle
theconversation.com/flore-endemi...
Phenogenomics reveals the ecology and evolution of Trichoderma fungi for sustainable agriculture
-in @natmicrobiol.nature.com by Andrei Steindorff (@jgi.doe.gov) et al from Irina Druzhinina (at @rbgkew.bsky.social), Feng Cai, Igor Grigoriev, and a large network
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper out!
Lead by @camilletruong.bsky.social & with @spun.earth #FungiFoundation in Biod Conserv:
“Large-diameter trees disproportionately contribute to soil fungal diversity in a coniferous forest with one of oldest living trees on Earth”.
@tobykiers.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Même une simple pomme de pin peut contenir un monde. 🌍💚
Entre ses écailles, la vie s’installe en version miniature : mousses, filaments, champignons… 🤩✨
L’extraordinaire ne crie pas : il se cache dans les détails.
📷 u/maesterofwargs
#Nature #MicroEcosystem #LifeFindsAWay #Insolite
We broke our sequencing record for FY25, by sequencing more than 1 Pb of data in a year! 🖥️ 🧬
Learn more about our accomplishments in our annual Progress Report here: https://jointgeno.me/ProgressReport_FY25
A team led by ecologist @christinakaiser.bsky.social has discovered that mycorrhizal symbiosis is sensitive to imbalances of certain nutrients in the soil. The data come from an experiment that has been running for over 70 years.
www.univie.ac.at/en/news/pres...
🧵1/3 #PlantScience
Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lever le voile sur les microbiotes inconnus des coraux du Pacifique à bord de Tara
theconversation.com/lever-le-voi...
📢 𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐲𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 (𝐄𝐌𝐂 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔)
🍄 Save the date: 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟏-𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, in Edirne, Türkiye! Hosted by Trakya University, exploring everything from medical mycology to AI.
📅 Submissions open: 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
📅 Deadline: 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟑𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬: imafungus.pensoft.net/news/1142
#Mycology #Fungi
Logo illustration for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions. Two trees are connected by fungal hyphae with fruiting bodies visible above ground. Soil fauna are visible below ground. Insects and macrofauna including a hare and birds can be seen above ground. A satellite can be seen in the sky.
Explore plant interactions in forests from micro- to macro-scales, across the whole spectrum of plant biology.
Submit your abstract for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions by 20 May!
📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland
#PlantScience
www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps
OsWRI1a coordinates systemic growth responses to nitrogen availability in rice | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Integrating root and shoot nitrogen responses | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Schematic diagram summarizing the key results from this study for heart rot stems, no heart rot stems, heart rot stems with bark fractures of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marshall), and soil.
Forest health, heart rot disease, and their impact on the source of carbon-based greenhouse gas fluxes
Senevirathne et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Eyelash Fungus #FungiFriends
Tree Regeneration After Unprecedented Forest Disturbances in Central Europe Is Robust but Maladapted to Future Climate Change
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This reveals a previously hidden layer of regulation in tree–fungus mutualism. And it opens the door to functional studies on a whole new set of candidate SSPs.
Congrats to Clémence Bonnot and our amazing team!
How do they work? Not by making more lateral roots. Instead, they inhibit root growth — likely redirecting development toward ectomycorrhizal root organogenesis. 8/
Plot twist: these CLE peptides are phylogenetically distinct from those regulating arbuscular mycorrhizal or rhizobial symbioses. Poplar co-opted a different toolkit for ECM development. 7/
The star finding: five CLE peptides from poplar directly enhanced ectomycorrhizal root formation in functional assays. They don't just respond to symbiosis — they promote it. 6/
