Two publications (Nat Plant & Microbiome) by Mireadili Kuerban from Martijn Bezemer group in IBL on how neighbours shape plant life via root microbiome #NatComs with @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... & in Microbiome link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Neighbours rewire plant–soil feedback patterns via reshaping root microbiomes - Nature Plants

In competition, plant performance in conspecific and heterospecific soils is determined not only by negative or positive plant–soil feedbacks but also by neighbours inducing changes in the root microb...

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See our new publication in @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Ecology on Adele Pioppi's #NNF_INTERACT PhD project where together with @xinmingxu.bsky.social, they describe the shift in wheat microbiome upon drought stress during successive cultivation academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...

Happy to share our paper from my postdoc time at the @w-u-r.bsky.social showing that specialist vs generalist pathogen transmission depends strongly on the plants present. A reminder that belowground interactions shape biodiversity in ways we are only starting to understand. 🍄🌱 👇

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The phylogenetic structure of plant communities drives the belowground transmission of fungal pathogens Jose G. Maciá-Vicente, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

My research about planting trees with the help of microbes to create new forests from abandoned agricultural land, as part of the #SilvaNova project @unileiden.bsky.social, has been featured in @volkskrant.nl 🌳🌳 tinyurl.com/mspk652u

Proud of collaborating with Kostas Georgopoulos (first PhD I helped supervise) who just got the last publication of his thesis out while waiting for his defence in November 19th. Check out how soil microbes and nutrient inputs influence root nodulation and tree performance: tinylink.net/dV8Mr 🌳🦠🍄

Soil microbes and nutrient inputs influence root nodulation and tree performance in Alnus glutinosa

The symbiotic relationship between the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Frankia alni and the pioneer tree species Alnus glutinosa plays an important role for …

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See our review on SynComs for tree microbiome engineering by @marccamb.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social seed grant between @imibirmingham.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New #openaccess opinion piece, the first of our brilliant collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social - thanks to @unibirmingham.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social for funding! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities

Trees are essential to ecosystems in both natural and urban environments, yet they are increasingly threatened by abiotic and biotic stresses linked t…

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📢 If you are interested to investigate how urban soil biodiversity can help cities to be more climate resilient, consider applying to this PhD position @unileiden.bsky.social: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... #UrbanEcology #ThirstyCities 🌳🍄💦

Many thanks @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social for the hospitality and organising everything so nicely for our visit. I had a great time! I look forward to continuing our tree-microbe discussions, with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social & @xinmingxu.bsky.social Hope to see you soon! 🌳🍄🦠

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We are holding a mini symposium on plant-microbe interactions @unibirmingham.bsky.social today as part of our strategic partnership with @unileiden.bsky.social - exciting talks by Alice Gauthey and @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social

Discussing about plants in the Winterbourne garden during our collaboration visit at University of Birmingham #BirminghamLeidenCollaboration -with @marccamb.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social & @xinmingxu.bsky.social "How do you call this plant in 🇫🇷, 🇵🇹, 🇨🇳, 🇬🇧, or 🇭🇺?"

Starting our symposium on ‘restoring ecosystem functions and biodiversity in post-agricultural forest’ at KU (Denmark) with Per Gundersen introducing the aims of our SILVA NOVA project

@jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and @marccamb.bsky.social from @imibirmingham.bsky.social visiting us at #LeidenBiology for discussing collaborations, so we organized a Mini Symposium on plant-microbe research, with @dinglab.bsky.social, Salma Balazadeh, & @kostasgeo.bsky.social from IBL

Our newest research in @nature.com We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social

Fungal endophytes could potentially promote plant resilience to climate change. However, across 3 warming experiments (differing in age/species/climate), warming disrupted plant-fungal endophyte symbiosis, with stronger effects in leaves than roots. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In our Opinion paper, we propose that soil inoculations can help overcome agriculture legacies in newly planted forests. Also, we consider that a re-evaluation of afforestation targets is needed to set realistic expectations of ecosystem recovery. #SilvaNova onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Soil Microbiome Inoculation for Resilient and Multifunctional New Forests in Post‐Agricultural Landscapes

Soil inoculations can help forests grow faster on former farmland by fixing problems such as poor soil health and a lack of helpful microbes. Adding beneficial microbes to the soil can restore its bi...

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Arbuscular mycorrhiza in the urban jungle: Glomeromycotina communities of the dominant city tree across Amsterdam

Trees in cities provide a great number of benefits to people and nature, but they are challenged by harsh conditions. Trees rely on helpful fungi in their roots to get essential nutrients from the so...

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Check out the very creative 📽️ that students from the MSs Science Communication & Society @unileiden.bsky.social made to highlight the importance of soil microbes for healthy trees in cities 🌳🍄🐛🕷️🪲 Read also their blog post: tinyurl.com/ysjuedjj www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpip...

Communicating the importance of microbes for healthy trees in cities

By Floris Baas, Zoë Bor, Jonathan Meijers, Norika Narimatsu, and Anna ZuidgeestFor a project within our Master’s specialization Science Communication & Society, Sofia Gomes asked us to make a video about the importance of microbes for healthy trees. We decided to make a stop-motion video, as this is entertaining while still being informative. Also, we thought this would be easier than learning digital animation :)With our video, we primarily hope to reach people between 25-39 years old who are s

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It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature

Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

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