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Today, an article in @lemonde.fr, to which we contributed, revisits this @science.org article on genomic selection of chestnut trees for disease resistance.

#GenomicSelection
#ForestHealth
#TreeHealth
#ForestPathology

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Placements for PhD Students We welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex.

Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? I’m offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social to build on @forest-protection.bsky.social research on pest and pathogen risks to trees 🪲🪾🦠🪾 Apply by 13th March! www.kew.org/science/training-and-education/placements-for-phd-students

Four years have passed. We are on the right side of history. Putin is trying to take us back to the past. He cannot win on the battlefield, so his main weapon is terror against civilians. But the future will come. And it is inevitable.

People ask me how I feel on the anniversary of the full-scale invasion, when bombs began to fall on peaceful cities and columns of RU tanks marched on Kyiv. To be honest, nothing special. Just another day of war, which has become part of our lives. And destroyed everything we call normal life.

4 years of full scale Russian aggression against Ukraine

12 years since annexation of Crimea and start of Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine

TEMOIGNAGE. Exil, coupures, drones : entre France et Ukraine, la science en résistance Des scientifiques ukrainiens poursuivent leurs recherches malgré l’exil pour certains, les drones et les coupures d’électricité pour d'autres. Alors que la guerre, qui a débuté avec l’invasion de la R...

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Poplar CLE peptides promoting ectomycorrhizal symbiosis identified through genome-wide analysis of responsive small secreted peptides Trees use CLAVATA3/EMBRYO SURROUNDING REGION-related (CLE) peptides to promote ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, revealing an additional regulatory layer in tree–

🧵 New paper out in @PlantPhysiology! We asked: how do trees talk to their fungal partners during ectomycorrhizal symbiosis? Turns out, tiny secreted peptides play a big role. 1/

Read the full paper here 👇
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Paris this weekend.

Thank you, France! 🇫🇷🇺🇦

Émission spéciale à Kyiv : la vie en Ukraine après quatre ans de guerre Le 24 février 2022, l’Ukraine basculait avec le début de l’invasion russe à grande échelle. Quatre ans plus tard, la guerre continue. Ce soir, émission spéciale depuis Kyiv pour raconter une société c...

Une vieille dame Ukrainienne : « Le plus important c’est, s’il vous plaît, ne nous oubliez pas, ne nous laissez pas seuls »

www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing.

🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": The U.S. is reorienting its foreign funding program to export #MAGA ideology to Europe — and a growing set of far-right and conservative think tanks and political groups are lining up to take Washington’s money. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/maga...

#RP_INRAE Une étude menée durant 10 ans sur 9 systèmes de cultures au sein d’unités expérimentales montre que cultiver sans pesticides est faisable techniquement et économiquement, sous certaines conditions.
👉 url.inrae.fr/3MLBa8u

Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

Chromosome-scale Genome Assembly of the Most Abundant Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Cenococcum Geophilum Reveals Massive TE Expansion and RIP Defense Mechanism Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) play crucial roles in genome evolution and ecological adaptation in fungi, yet their dynamics in ectomycorrhizal spec

Dauphin et al. assembled a telomere-to-telomere reference genome for an ectomycorrhizal fungus with a large, repeat-rich genome, showing its genome expansion was driven by a few lineage-specific TE families in recent history.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag017

#genome #evolution #TEsky

En Gironde, la plus grande usine de ballons dirigeables au monde va détruire 39 ha de zone humide En Nord Gironde, un projet titanesque menace de détruire 39 ha de zones humides et 75 ha de forêt : une usine de ballons dirigeables.

En Gironde, la plus grande usine de ballons dirigeables au monde va détruire 39 ha de zone humide lareleveetlapeste.fr/en-gironde-l...

📣 L'INRAE recrute : @umr-iam.bsky.social recrute un.e assistant.e ingénieur.e INRAE en biologie moléculaire et productions végétales pour étudier les interactions 🌳-🍄 symbiotiques.
Rendez-vous sur jobs.inrae.fr/concours/con... avant le 19 mars 2026 pour postuler !

48th New Phytologist Symposium:
Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.
13 October 2026 - 16 October 2026
Leysin, Switzerland
www.newphytologist.org/events/48-np...

Wow.

Faut-il encore faire des pesticides l’alpha et l’oméga de la protection des cultures ? Les exemples du Brésil et de la France Les pesticides ont longtemps protégé les cultures, mais leurs effets délétères sont désormais bien documentés. Réduire cette dépendance est une urgence, en France comme au Brésil.

Faut-il encore faire des pesticides l’alpha et l’oméga de la protection des cultures ? Les exemples du Brésil et de la France

theconversation.com/faut-il-enco...

Maarja Öpik stands next to the President of Estonia, holding her Order of Merit.

New Phytologist's Editor-in-Chief, Maarja Öpik, received the Order of Merit from the Estonian President on Saturday: www.delfi.ee/artikkel/120...

Congratulations Maarja!

This is one of the #ForestHealth topics that pushed me toward a career in #ForestPathology. Always a immense pleasure to see progress in restoring this keystone species to Eastern US deciduous forests

Sophie Adenot en costume d'astronaute.

Culture de plantes dans des petits pots.

🚀 Dans quelques heures, Sophie Adenot embarquera dans la Station spatiale internationale avec, dans ses bagages, une expérience inédite préparée avec l'aide de Sorbonne Université et de l' @isyeb.mnhn.fr : le projet ChlorISS !

👉 Objectif : faire pousser des plantes en apesanteur : swll.to/7glQGB

Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi - Nature A study presents an approach to establish and track a new endosymbiotic partnership by implanting bacteria in a non-host fungus and shows that stable inheritance of the implanted bacteria is possible ...

Vorholt Lab re-created endosymbiosis in the lab: injected bacteria into a fungus and evolved a heritable partnership.

Evolution, fast-forwarded.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...

A step forward in restoring the American #chestnut #tree, Castanea dentata, which was almost wiped out by chestnut #blight, caused by the #invasive #fungus Cryphonectria parasitica, and Phytophthora root rot.

#GenomicSelection #ForestHealth #TreeHealth #ForestPathology

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Happy #DarwinDay!
Charles Darwin was born 217 years ago, on 12 February 1809.
In an increasingly uncertain world, his thoughts are more topical than ever.

And there is one more chance to join the 3rd Annual Women in Science webinar series of IUFRO's Division 7 - the last webinar is today at 🕓16:00 UTC!

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#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #ForestScience #ForestResearch

A daily reminder that #RussiaIsATerroristState