I am wondering how many totally different versions of soil there were right at the beginning of terrestrial ecosystems, well before the arrival of land plants.

Curious to hear what people think about this concept and how it could be applied...

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Operationalizing soil persistence in #soil and ecosystem #ecology @mrillig.bsky.social, Laurent Philippot and Johannes Lehmann nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

En Gironde, les vulnérabilités des forêts ne disparaîtront pas avec la fumée des incendies theconversation.com/en-gironde-l...

En Gironde, les vulnérabilités des forêts ne disparaîtront pas avec la fumée des incendies

Les incendies favorisés par le changement climatique déclenchent des perturbations en cascade qui se renforcement mutuellement et menacent les plantations de pins.

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Upper and lower leaf surfaces drive distinct seasonal dynamics of oak phyllosphere bacteria Xiangbo Yin (尹相博), et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JP9NJB... #PlantScience

Cette infographie est à la fois spectaculaire et pédagogique. Les paysages français de notre enfance ne seront plus ceux de demain. 1/9

📢 Hear from the 2025 Tansley Medal Winner, @camilledelavaux.bsky.social, in the latest New Phytologist Now webinar. Join us for free at 14:30 BST (UTC+1) 4 September 2026: www.newphytologist.org/news/on-the-... #PlantScience

New Phytologist Now: On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography

Hear from the 2025 Tansley Medal Winner, Camille S. Delavaux, in the latest New Phytologist Now webinar. Join us for free at 14:30 BST (UTC+1) 4 September 2026.

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"Minuscule voilier des airs maltraité par le vent en pétale superfétatoire, il vagabonde au jardin" – Francis Ponge

Les arbres s’enracinent dans un royaume de putréfaction – un lieu où fermentation et décomposition tissent les fondements de la vie à venir, source éternelle de la fertilité des sylves ...

Hêtre ... Être de perfection, aux proportions équilibrées, composé d’un foisonnement de racines, de branches et de feuilles obéissant à un invariable souci d’harmonie ... Réserve biologique d'Housseramont - Noir Rupt

Who is this bare-chested man carrying a bag with his long hair streaming behind him?

Our first orchid genome paper is out "Inter-haplotype inversions and repeat expansion in the sexually deceptive orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis" academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-.... All let by our super talented master student Zirui Zhang

Inter-haplotype inversions and repeat expansion in the sexually deceptive orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis

Abstract. High-quality nuclear genome resources remain scarce for most orchids, particularly Australia’s diverse terrestrial lineages. Chiloglottis trapezi

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Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations - Nature Communications

Plants can recruit beneficial microbes to suppress pathogens, offering a route to rational biocontrol beyond empirical screening. Here, the authors use machine learning to identify disease-associated ...

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Paper just out: Wang et al. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi orchestrate belowground microbiomes in plant holobionts www.cell.com/trends/plant... @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social @mvanderheijden.bsky.social with Nancy Johnson; senior author: Feng Gu at CAU

📣 New preprint! 🧵 Fantastic work led by @antonkraege.bsky.social Fact: Cerato-platanins are everywhere in fungi. Found across the fungal kingdom, implicated in everything from development to virulence to immune activation. But what do they *actually* do? We finally found the answer 👇

Quelques nouvelles de la situation à l'INRAE de Pierroton dans ce CP INRAE pour faire suite à mon précédent post. Solidarité avec les collègues. www.inrae.fr/actualites/i...

Des infrastructures de la recherche forestière d’INRAE détruites par les incendies en Gironde

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE - Les incendies en Gironde ont détruit près de 80 ha de dispositifs de recherche forestière d’INRAE dont plusieurs observatoires uniques suivis depuis des décennies. Cette perte a...

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy@tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thinking of all my former colleagues at INRAE Pierroton, as well as everyone in Marcheprime & the Bassin d'Arcachon affected by this devastating wildfire. My thoughts are with those whose homes and workplaces are under threat. The fire now appears to be at La Croix D'Hins, just 2-3 km from INRAE. 💔

Height does not impair the hydraulic system of the tallest tropical Dipterocarp trees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - good to see our #MetabolicScalingTheory predictions we made for scaling of hydraulic resistance and xylem anatomy hold up in some of the tallest trees #allometry #megabiota 🧪🌾🌐

Height does not impair the hydraulic system of the tallest tropical Dipterocarp trees

Half of the aboveground biomass in forests is stored in a disproportionately small number of very tall trees. These giants are predicted to be more vulnerable to drought-induced damage because height ...

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Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have created an engineered living material based on a filamentous fungus. The material can regenerate its surface, self-clean, and integrate engineered microbial “partners” that can color the material or provide it with UV protection. https://scim.ag/4bY0PUG

A programmable fungal platform for engineered living textiles

A programmable fungal platform enables engineered living textiles with tunable functions and biodegradability.

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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Environmental phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown eukaryotes starting from the mid-Proterozoic.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/5Lpf50Ztxar For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/AMo550Ztxas.

TR4-triggered rhizomicrobiome recruitment protects banana from Fusarium wilt Zhang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SD5BSB...

« L’agriculture a besoin d’un climat stable, de pollinisateurs et de sols fertiles. 🐝 Réautoriser les néonicotinoïdes, c’est le contraire de ce qu’il faut faire pour sauver l’agriculture ! » 📺 Extrait de @tatianagiraud.bsky.social, directrice de recherche au CNRS, sur Télématin mardi 21 juillet.

We're at #ESA2026! Come by booth 206 to chat with Holly Slater about publishing in New Phytologist and @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social. 📢 Don't miss the New Phytologist Foundation Keynote, 'What has the Megadrought done to my favorite desert plants?' by James Ehleringer at 10:30 this morning!

Using new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking potential for AI-driven energy metabolism studies. 🖥️ 🧬 🍄 More: https://jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/mining-public-databases-yields-largest-map-fungal-mitochondrial

Mining Public Databases Yields Largest Map of Fungal Mitochondrial Genomes to Date | Joint Genome Institute

By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new potential for AI-driven studies of energy metabolism.

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Oak woods. Severe drought. Only the weeping conk still weeps. Pseudoinonotus dryadeus, the weeping conk, at the root collar of an oak.

Chênaie. Sécheresse sévère. Seul le polypore larmoyant pleure encore ... Pseudoinonotus dryadeus, polypore larmoyant, au collet d'un chêne.

"Jérôme Santolini : « Avant d’être scientifiques, nous sommes citoyens »" sur @themeta.news

Jérôme Santolini : « Avant d’être scientifiques, nous sommes citoyens » — TheMetaNews

Votre ouvrage se nomme Sciences en crises, au pluriel. Quelles sont-elles ? Depuis quelques années, nous sommes confrontés à une multiplicité de crises :  écologiques, climatiques, sanitaires, sociale...

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Messina et al. resequenced genomes of 99 understorey forest songbirds, finding that genetic erosion can occur within a few decades of habitat disturbance even in apparently common tropical bird species. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag139 #societyjournal #congen

Field update: Sampling in the US Desert in 100 degree temperature. Earlier this year, SPUN scientists Jinsu Elhance and Dr. Anne Polyakov together with Dr. Cameron Egan of USC traveled to the Mojave Desert to sample soils around threatened Joshua trees. More soon. 📸: Gabe De La Rosa

Thanks to our institutions @cnrsecologie.bsky.social, @inrae-france.bsky.social and funders #CEBAlabex, @tulip-gs-labex.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social

Predicting plant microbiomes through complexity #plantscience

Predicting plant microbiomes through complexity

Predicting how microbiota composition determines functional outputs remains a major challenge in rhizosphere ecology. Moran et al. show that physiological or environmental constraints organize high-diversity communities along dominant ecological axes, allowing microbiome functioning to become increasingly predictable. This perspective suggests that rhizosphere complexity itself may generate a predictable ecological organization.

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Télématin: canicules, feux de forêts, comment protéger la nature? En arrêtant d'émettre du CO2, et d'empoisonner l'eau et les sols.... Tout le contraire de la loi "urgence agricole"(!): pas d'agriculture possible sur des sols stériles, sans pollinisateurs et à +4°C www.france.tv/france-2/tel...