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Amit Kumar

@amit-kumar-phd.bsky.social

Global Change Biology, Ecosystem Ecology, Plant-Soil-Microbial interactions. Views are my own. Academic chatter!! #FirstGen

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Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · 3w ago

Increasing nutrient diversity is expected to promote microbial diversity. This study shows that more complex environments can enhance resource uptake, intensify competition and lead to microbial biodiversity loss, challenging a central ecological assumption 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Increased nutrient diversity can induce loss of microbial diversity through enhanced resource uptake - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Increasing nutrient diversity is expected to promote microbial diversity. This study shows that more complex environments can enhance resource uptake, intensify competition and lead to microbial biodi...

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Online now: Rethinking plasticity in fungal resilience and ecosystem functioning

Rethinking plasticity in fungal resilience and ecosystem functioning

Fungi are widely recognized as phenotypically plastic, a characteristic often invoked to explain the persistence of ecosystem functions under disturbance. How plasticity varies across taxa remains a key question. Emerging evidence implies species-specific, phylogenetically structured responses, with the strongest divergence under environmental extremes, making fungal community composition essential to ecosystem functioning.

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Association of Applied Biologists@aabiologists.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fantastic news 🎊 Congratulations to the Annals team!! @malacrino.bsky.social @raa12161.bsky.social @robinheinennl.bsky.social @sganie.bsky.social @mregule.bsky.social @joe-roberts.bsky.social @kevintougeron.bsky.social @amit-kumar-phd.bsky.social & the rest of the editorial team 👏👏

Annals of Applied Biology@annalsapplbio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🎉 We're delighted to announce that our Impact Factor has increased from 1.8 to 2.1! 📈 🏆 We now rank #35 for #Agriculture multidisciplinary - retaining our position as Q2 journal! Thank you to all our editors, reviewers & authors for their hard work 💚 @wileylifesci.bsky.social

Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · 9mo ago

New Comment: A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...

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Science Magazine@science.org · 11mo ago

When harmful fungi invade their carefully cultivated crops, fungus-farming termites fight back with the precision of skilled gardeners, a new Science study reveals, smothering them in soil clumps enriched with microbial allies that inhibit fungal growth. https://scim.ag/4nsAqCu

Fungus-farming termites can protect their crop by confining weeds with fungistatic soil boluses

The symbiotic agriculture of fungus-farming termites can collapse if they fail to prevent invading weeds. Previous studies suggest a role for symbiotic fungistatic microbes in bringing about weed cont...

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Jean-Michel Ané@jeanmichelane.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Very nice work from @kschlaeppi.bsky.social and co-workers. It illustrates once again the power and relevance of looking at communities in addition to individual strains > Synthetic communities of maize root bacteria interact and redirect benzoxazinoid metabolization

Synthetic communities of maize root bacteria interact and redirect benzoxazinoid metabolization

Plant roots are colonized by diverse microbial communities. These communities are shaped by root exudates, including plant-specialized metabolites. Benzoxazinoids are such secreted compounds of maize. Individual microbes differ in their ability to tolerate and metabolize antimicrobial benzoxazinoids. To investigate how these traits combine in a community, we designed two synthetic communities of maize root bacteria that share six common strains and differ in their ability to metabolize benzoxazinoids based on the seventh strain. We exposed both communities to the benzoxazinoid MBOA (6-methoxybenzoxazolin-2(3H)-one) in vitro and found that the metabolizing community did not degrade MBOA to its aminophenoxazinone, as observed for individual strains, but, as a community, they formed the corresponding acetamide. MBOA shaped the differential compositions of both communities and increased the fraction of MBOA-tolerant strains. The benzoxazinoid-metabolizing community showed a higher tolerance to MBOA and was able to utilize MBOA as their sole carbon source for growth. Hence, bacterial interaction results in alternative benzoxazinoid metabolization and increases community performance in the presence of these antimicrobial compounds. Future work is needed to uncover the genetics of this metabolic interaction and ecological consequences for the bacterial community and the host plant.

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Vicky Temperton@7toucans.bsky.social · last yr.

Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change | Nature Communications share.google/tGonDK25Iymd... The epitome of an innovative idea: applying Taylor's Law to understanding the variability of disturbance events in forests. Important paper!

Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change - Nature Communications

Large pulses of disturbance have been observed globally in response to climate change. Using Taylor’s Law, the authors show that those pulses were not unpredictable but expected given a strong scaling...

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Ákos T Kovács@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · last yr.

Soil fungi influence the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality manipulating plant species richness/soil fungal diversity in 190 plant communities => measuring 10 ecosystem functions -in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Soil fungi influence the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality - Nature Communications

Fungal diversity is critical for ecosystem functioning, yet its role in mediating the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality remains unclear. This study finds that funga...

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Amit Kumar@amit-kumar-phd.bsky.social · last yr.

I have a question: many research lines show cultivar specific microbial communities in soil. Is it always important to varify this with your own samples or just assuming it be the case would be alright? Not always possible to sequence them.

Marney Isaac@marneyisaac.bsky.social · last yr.

Great to see our paper on diversified agricultural systems, published in Science, selected as a 2025 national Frontiers Planet Prize champion! This global dataset was curated by an amazing team of researchers working in agriculture and sustainability. www.frontiersplanetprize.org/news/nsh4fah...

A More Diverse Agriculture for the Future of Our Planet — Frontiers Planet Prize

Zia Mehrabi from the University of Colorado Boulder, National Champion for the USA, presents groundbreaking research from a global collaboration showing how increasing on-farm diversity improves both ...

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Mutez Ahmed@mutezahmed.bsky.social · last yr.

We are hiring! Looking for 2 motivated PhD students within a joint @dfg.de project between Ulm University (research team of Steven Jansen) and my team at TUM Application deadline 30 April 2025 (CV and a cover letter ).

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