Francis M. Martin

Marasmius hudsonii 🍄📷 #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

Habitat filtering more than microbiota origin controls microbiome transplant outcomes in soil Abstract. Human activities cause a global loss of soil microbiome diversity and functionality. One way to reverse this trend is through microbiota transpla

Outcome of soil microbiome transplants is controlled more by selective pressures of recipient soil environment (habitat filtering) than original composition of transplanted community, emphasising habitat’s characteristics, not microbiota origin, determine transplant success👇 
doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Rubroboletus legaliae

#Rubroboletuslegaliae #Rubroboletus #LeGalsDickröhrling #Boletchicorée #BoletdeLeGal #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends

Famous Oregon Black Truffle finally receives an official name

🔗 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞:
Phylogenomics, trophic ecology, and systematics of the truffle-forming Morchellaceae
https://doi.org/10.3114/persoonia.2025.55.02

A to do list from the article in Nature

From bench to big boss: mitigating the widening gap between PI and lab

Laboratory dynamics can change as the age and experience of the principal investigator increase. But there are ways to combat this.

Read our piece in Nature, with @sprekeler.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Although polar, high altitude montane and cold desert environments harbour only sparse plant life, they do provide an environment for numerous new species of fungi

🔗 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞:
https://doi.org/10.3114/sim.2025.112.03

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer) As you walk among trees, you may notice that we are at the time when leaves begin to look bedraggled, with wounds, pests and pathogens, pallid colors, overall an increasingly pathetic demeanor. There ...

Look at some tree leaves on your walks. They look terrible - blotched, wounded, discolored. Leaves cannot repair themselves and begin to deteriorate surprisingly early. Read more at Our Trees.

The book 'Planet Fungi: A Photographer's Foray' in a park setting. The cover features a strikingly beautiful mushroom with a thick white stem and round blue cap.

Out now: Planet Fungi
With stunning macrophotography alongside fascinating science stories and pioneering explorations, this book showcases the extraordinary beauty, diversity and importance of fungi.

Discover the enchanting world of fungi: www.publish.csiro.au/book/8150/

#PlanetFungi #FungiFriday

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...

Free access authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWYT3RC06...

Fungal networks have remained in the dark, despite the extraordinary ways they sustain life on land and they need urgent protection.

Read the article by Taro Kaneko in the @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Where are Earth’s mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots?

Read the explainer article by SPUN's Michael Van Nuland and Jason Cremerius to find out more about our research and what's next: www.spun.earth/underground-...

Can plant biodiversity predict underground fungal diversity?

New study published in Nature Communications finds only 8.8% of arbuscular mycorrhizal and 1.5% of ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity hotspots overlap with plant hotspots.

Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evalua...

How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org

Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.

doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Oysters! 🤍 🍄📷#FungiFriends #FungiFriday

* Emmanuel Boîtier

www.emmari.net

Arbres, secrets de géants - Prévente > Boutique - Salamandre > Boutique - Salamandre Le livre Un beau livre très soigné qui dévoile la vie intime de vingt-quatre essences incontournables de nos régions. Chê

Un beau livre qui dévoile la vie intime d’essences incontournables de nos régions : Chêne, tilleul, sapin, mélèze, frêne, saule… des portraits personnels illustrant combien chaque arbre est un monde à part entière. Superbement illustré par Emmanuelle Boîtier …
boutique.salamandre.org/arbres-secre...

From bench to big boss: mitigating the widening gap between PI and lab Laboratory dynamics can change as the age and experience of the principal investigator increase. But there are ways to combat this.

Very happy to share this paper, out in Nature, written with Henning, whom I met during my sabbatical at @oistedu.bsky.social

From bench to big boss: mitigating the widening gap between PI and lab

An important topic....would be curious to hear your thoughts...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My AI chatbot thinks my idea is fundable A dialogue with artificial intelligence has changed how Angela Steinauer thinks through her ideas. The trick is staying sceptical and asking better questions.

‘“Do you ever talk science with AI?” Some colleagues looked puzzled. Others laughed and said: “All the time.” It seems I’m not alone.’

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Towards more effective nature-based climate solutions in global forests - Nature A strategy to improve the implementation of nature-based climate solutions in global forests for climate mitigation is described, comprising four key components to highlight notable science and policy...

We have a new paper that is the result of a working group on nature-based climate solutions using forests. We identify challenges in quantifying net cooling, durability, additionality, and leakage and provide solutions and research needs for each of the challenges.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New and Improved: Eucalyptus Reference is Now Accessible | Joint Genome Institute An improved genome assembly to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.

Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus. Haplotype-resolved, it has 700-fold greater contiguity—
meaning the genome is reconstructed in larger, more complete segments. 🖥️🧬 🌱

More on our Plant Program: jgi.doe.gov/science-prog...

@axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov

Un article de synthèse (en français !!!) sur les communautés fongiques des sols forestiers face aux changements climatiques publié dans les Comptes Rendus Biologie de l'Académie des Sciences :
comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

A nice collaboration with Hai‐Sheng Yuan and his team from CAS: 'Host adaptation is driving genome evolution and ecological speciation in the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Tricholoma' in Journal of Systematics and Evolution
doi.org/10.1111/jse....

Our new newsletter is now published!
Dig into the latest updates on IMS’s 20th anniversary, ICOM2026 preparations, our new website & logo, top 10 research papers, and upcoming events. Read more at mycorrhizas.org/news. Stay connected! #Mycorrhiza

A fungus from which a gelatinous mass drops down with brown cap and purple stem standing in a spruce wood.

#fungifact 🍄📷 Cortinarius collinitus after the rain. The blue-girdled Webcap is typically found in spruce woods. Cap and the stem are covered in a gelatinous slime, which is typical for this subgroup of webcaps Myxacium. Edible but because of the many toxic lookalikes not recommended. #fungifriends

Les généreuses pâtures du Grand Colombier …

Mountain birch ectomycorrhizas

several bright blue fungi fruiting bodies on a log

1. Introducing the Global Spore Sampling Project🍄

This project collected airborne spore samples across 47 sites globally, resulting in 2,768 extracted #DNA samples. 🧬

Data was mobilized with the GBIF Metabarcoding Data Toolkit by #GBIFFinland 🔗gbif.link/spore-dataset

@lajitieto.bsky.social

Excited to get these data into the hands of decision makers.

Most of Earth’s critical underground fungus is unprotected First global map of mushrooms that form beneficial relationships with plant roots reveals 90% live outside of conservation areas

SPUN is featured in @science.org in a piece written by @humbertobasilio.bsky.social. Learn where some of the most unique fungal communities exist, such as West Africa’s Guinean forests, Tasmania’s temperate rainforests, and Brazil’s Cerrado savanna.

Read here: www.science.org/content/arti...