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The saprotrophic-symbiotic continuum in fungi
and the loss of rare microbiota through agricultural intensification

Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi. Francis Martin, Hao Tan, Current Biology : 2025 >>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000624

Banerjee, S., Dasgupta, D. & van der Heijden, M.G.A. Agricultural intensification, microbial homogenization and loss of rare microbiota. Nat Rev Microbiol (2026)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-026-01315-w >>
#soil #agriculture #microbiota #microbes #mycorrhizae #mutualism #symbiosis #saprotrophy #ecology #taxonomy #EcologicalSpectrum #organisms #LeafLitter #PlantMicrobeInteractions #MicrobialEcology

Image: #Fungi, Bellingen, NSW

Earthworm 🐌May 2

RE: https://botany.social/@botanyone/116504160551629066

There is so much fascinating resarch to do in this amazing world!

#Mycorrhiza #MicrobialEcology #PlantMicrobeInteractions #AMF

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Benedikt Haug Feb 9

First paper of the week in 2026!

Paper of the week - week 7 (2026):

Pseudomonas volatiles shape the root transcriptome and microbiome to promote plant growth under drought

Carracedo Lorenzo et al., 2026

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701981v1.abstract (preprint)

#plantmicrobeinteractions #microbemicrobeinteractions #volatileorganiccompounds #drought #ABA #plantgrowthpromotingrhizobacteria #Arabidopsisthaliana #Brassicaoleracea

Pseudomonas volatiles shape the root transcriptome and microbiome to promote plant growth under drought

### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Dutch Research Council (NWO/OCW), as part of the MiCRop Consortium Programme, Harnessing the second genome of plants

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Annals of Botany Jan 22

🌍 Foliar endophytes don’t just affect plants, they help engineer the soil environment, connecting above- and belowground processes in powerful ways. (9/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qnp5

#PlantMicrobeInteractions #SoilBiochemistry #Endophytes #Rhizosphere #PlantScience #AoBpapers

Annals of Botany Jan 22

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Foliar Epichloë fungal endophytes affect soil biochemistry via changes in the expression of root genes and exudates within their host plants’ in @AnnBot by Xiumei Nie and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qnp5

#PlantMicrobeInteractions #SoilBiochemistry #Endophytes #Rhizosphere #PlantScience #AoBpapers

NIOO-KNAW Oct 6, 2025

New publication: NRPS gene dynamics in the #wheat #rhizoplane show increased proportion of viscosin NRPS genes of importance for root colonization during drought. #rootmicrobiome #plantmicrobeinteractions
https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00852-24