Gaurav Pandharikar

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Packed room for Emma Corre's PhD defense on transposable elements in rust fungi genomes.
Congratulations Dr @emma--c.bsky.social 👏👏👏

And what a lovely tribute to Barbara McClintock who discovered transposable elements in 🌽!!!

More than receiving the first prize, I am happy to be part of this conference, which makes great efforts to communicate science and discuss problems and potential solutions related to its… | Gaurav Pa... More than receiving the first prize, I am happy to be part of this conference, which makes great efforts to communicate science and discuss problems and potential solutions related to its advancement....

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@umr-iam.bsky.social Very beautiful sunny day for our mycology lab inventory
"Champignoux day"

Thank you ☺️

@keatontremble.bsky.social @jakenash12.bsky.social

Fungal endophytes Organisms are commonly grouped into ecological guilds that reflect their shared resource use and similar ecological roles. The guild concept has been …

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌿 Excited to share our Primer on fungal endophytes, the elusive members of the fungal kingdom that defy easy classification. Neither pathogens nor symbionts in the strict sense, they challenge how we define ecological guilds. @umr-iam.bsky.social

Yesterday we presented our work on the impact of 🌳🌲 conversion to 🥑 orchards on soil microbial communities at #ISMELat2025.

If you're in Mérida and want to know more about how pathogens modulate the 🥑 rhizosphere #microbiome, I'll give a talk tomorrow in the "host-microbiome" session.

Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor - Communications Biology A lab experiment shows that Dark Septate Endophytes can form common fungal networks between plants, increasing biomass and enabling water movement, suggesting that non-mycorrhizal fungi may contribute...

In our review of CMNs, water stood out as a resource that might be transferred between plants via fungal connections. This new study provides further support (and in DSEs!). Nice expt by Bea Bock et al 👍 Great to see new research.

doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
We are proud to have so many brilliant female scientists in our #IAM department! 👩‍🔬🎓🍄🦠🧫🔬🌳🌲📊
We must never give up on #equality, #diversity & #inclusion 💪
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
@inrae-france.bsky.social @univlorraine.bsky.social

Today in our weekly @umr-iam.bsky.social seminar, @gpandharikar.bsky.social introduced us to the fantastic world of poplar roots and of the role of triterpenes for fungal colonization 🍄🤝🌱

#OurFridaySeminar: @gpandharikar.bsky.social on #Tree - #Fungi mutualistic #interactions: the roles of #Poplar #terpenes

Sure, that’s great !! I will have long list of things to tell them 😅

#OurNewPaper in #JHazardMater:
Carla Vandekerkhove et al. 2025. Dissecting the mechanisms of copper-azole wood preservatives detoxification by ligninolytic fungi
doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
@melmorel-rouhier.bsky.social @rodnay.bsky.social @gpandharikar.bsky.social

Plant metabolic pathway scheme and key enzymatic processes that affect the isotope composition at different positions in the glucose moieties of cellulose

Imagine you could reconstruct and separate environmental impacts on complex metabolic processes from tree rings 🌲 - multidimensional isotopic fingerprints might make it possible: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Christmas lunch @Ecogenomic team @fmartin54.bsky.social @mrmbuee.bsky.social @SebbyRust

15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use

15 examples of when to use AI, and 5 uses to avoid

Substack by Ethan Mollick

#generativeAI
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/15-times-t...

Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits - Nature Analyses of a global dataset of plant root traits identify an ancestral conservative strategy based on thick roots and mycorrhizal symbiosis, and an evolutionarily more-recent opportunistic strategy o...

Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits www.nature.com/articles/nat...

Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions Nature Communications - How climate change will impact microbial community growth is unclear. Here, the authors use a field experiment with varying global change factors, finding fungal growth more...

Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds.
Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini.
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#Introduction
We study the effects of plant pathogens on the plant microbiome, using #meta-omics. Our main model is 🥑 and we have investigated diseases such as #Fusarium dieback or #Phytophthora root rot.
Some papers here 👇