Degraded soils : Europe is losing more than €50 billion annually

Europe is losing more than €50 billion annually because of its degraded soils write leading scientists in an op-ed for Euronews. They found a way to deliver healthier soils using AI. They say AI-drive...

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Soil Biology Masterclass 2026

This two-day soil biology masterclass provides you with the core knowledge and principles to assist in incorporating soil biology and health in management practices to sustainably increase productivit

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Soil Biology Masterclass 2026

This two-day soil biology masterclass provides you with the core knowledge and principles to assist in incorporating soil biology and health in management practices to sustainably increase productivit

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Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world | CNRS - Conférences Jacques Monod (CJM)

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Soil microbial diversity associates with lower prevalence of human bacterial pathogens across global soils

Xiong et al. report the most dominant human bacterial pathogens and their environmental drivers in global soils. Many dominant pathogens show negative associations with soil microbial diversity and po...

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Microbial diversity creates a global firewall against pathogens in soil

Soil is a critical ecological contributor to plant and animal health. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Xiong et al. use global metagenomic data to show that human pathogens linked to diseases lik...

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Dominance and natural suppression of bacterial plant pathogens across global soils - Nature Communications

A global study of 1602 soil samples identifies dominant bacterial plant pathogens and reveals microbial traits, soil carbon and climate that promote natural suppression, while climate change may incre...

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Uncertain role of conservation areas to protect soil biodiversity and functioning

Soil biodiversity and functioning are the foundation of ecosystem sustainability, but we do not know whether current nature conservation areas are eff…

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Integrating Synthetic Community With Chemical Fungicide Improves the Control of Rhizoctonia Bare Patch Disease in Wheat

The soil borne pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG8 causes Rhizoctonia bare patch disease, a major constraint on global wheat production, particularly in no- or minimal -till systems. Current control stra...

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Drought-induced plant microbiome and metabolic enrichments improve drought resistance

Li et al. show that drought stress promotes specific microbial and metabolite enrichments in the wheat rhizosphere. These changes enhance plant drought resistance via plant-microbes interactions and h...

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Soil microbial diversity associates with lower prevalence of human bacterial pathogens across global soils

Xiong et al. report the most dominant human bacterial pathogens and their environmental drivers in global soils. Many dominant pathogens show negative associations with soil microbial diversity and po...

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Soil microbial diversity associates with lower prevalence of human bacterial pathogens across global soils

Soil-inhabiting pathogens threaten human health, but their biogeography and associations with soil biodiversity remain poorly understood. Here, we present global patterns of dominant human bacterial pathogens by integrating 1,602 soil metagenomes from 59 countries across continents. We show that dominant human pathogens are more prevalent (i.e., relative abundance) in wet (tropical and temperate) ecosystems and are particularly abundant in cropland soils. We find a global negative association between soil microbiome diversity and pathogen prevalence. We further reveal a significant and positive correlation between the abundance of dominant human pathogens and both disease virulence and global patterns of mortality associated with infectious diseases. Many dominant pathogens are likely to increase their proportion under global change scenarios. Our work provides a global atlas of dominant soil-inhabiting human pathogens and reveals their biogeography and ecology. These findings can guide the development of effective surveillance and risk management strategies to reduce outbreaks and pandemics.

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Impacts of climate extremes on plant pathogens, microbiomes and plant health - Nature Reviews Microbiology

In this Review, Singh and colleagues discuss the impacts of key climate extremes on soil-borne pathogens, plant microbiomes and host physiology that ultimately determine disease outcomes, as well as t...

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Fellows

The European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) proudly brings together a distinguished community of leading scientists whose contributions have shaped and advanced the field of microbiology. Below, you wi...

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Impacts of climate extremes on plant pathogens, microbiomes and plant health | Nature Reviews Microbiology

Plant diseases pose a great risk to global food security, and recent research indicates that pathogen pressures on plant productivity will substantially increase under ongoing climate change (that is, increasing CO2 levels and global warming). However, our mechanistic and predictive knowledge of the impacts of climate extremes, such as heatwaves and prolonged droughts, and their interaction with other climatic factors, on plant pathogens, hosts and microbiomes, remains largely unknown. This is an important knowledge gap that limits our ability to develop effective strategies to mitigate the socioeconomic impacts of climate change-induced plant disease outbreaks. This Review examines the impacts of key climate extremes on soil-borne pathogens, plant microbiomes and host physiology that ultimately determine disease outcomes. We explore evidence that suggests that the responses of pathogen–host–microbiome interactions to climate extremes may differ in many ways from those to long-term climate change. Climate extremes may increase the virulence and distribution of many pathogens, suppress certain plant immune responses, and weaken the core functions of host microbiomes within the disease triangle, thereby facilitating disease outbreaks. We propose an integrated pathway for harnessing microbiomes to address the critical challenges posed by climate extremes. These insights offer new approaches to mitigate disease risks by harnessing microbiomes and metabolites under climate extremes, with the potential to support climate-resilient and sustainable agricultural and natural ecosystems.

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