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Francis M. Martin
@fmartin54.bsky.social
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Microbiologist & Plant physiologist. Symbiosis, Mycorrhizae, Genomics, Plant-microbe interactions, Microbial ecology. Views are my own

https://mycor.nancy.inra.fr/IAM/?page_id=10523

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Reposted by Francis Martin, Håvard Kauserud

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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 1d
New preprint: 🚀🧬 Starship in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria. Discovery of giant transposons Starships challenged what we thought we knew about fungal genomes. But what about Starships in #lichen fungi? Let us present Tangerine! 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Reposted by Francis Martin

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Pascal Frey @pascal-frey.bsky.social · 1d
Pourquoi les 🌳🌲 meurent-ils autant du manque d’💧 que des 🦠🍄🪱 ?

La réponse par @mireiagoga.bsky.social (@umr-iam.bsky.social) dans @lefigaro.fr 👇

#ForestHealth
#ForestPathology

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Pourquoi les arbres meurent autant du manque d’eau que des parasites
FIGARO DEMAIN - À Champenoux (Meurthe-et-Moselle), les expérimentations sous serre ou à ciel ouvert de l’Inrae viennent nuancer certains postulats concernant l’adaptation de nos forêts à la hausse des...
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Cecile Lorrain @ccilelorrain.bsky.social · 1d
Our paper on Zymoseptoria tritici 3D genome organization is officially out! @iglavincheska.bsky.social
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Three-dimensional genome architecture connects chromatin structure and function in a major wheat pathogen - BMC Biology
Background Genome spatial organization plays a fundamental role in biological function across all domains of life. While the principles of nuclear architecture have been well-characterized in animals ...
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Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Francis Martin, Jonathan Lenoir

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CNRS Écologie & Environnement @cnrsecologie.bsky.social · 1d
#Prix&Distinctions 🏆
Toutes nos félicitations à Frédéric Thomas (UMR Mivegec), Sylvain Gandon (UMR Cefe) et Jonathan Lenoir (UMR Edysan) ! 🥳
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Trois chercheurs d’unités CNRS Écologie & Environnement récompensés par l’Académie des sciences
Comme chaque année, l’Académie des sciences remet près de 80 prix couvrant l’ensemble des domaines scientifiques, aussi bien fondamentaux qu’appliqués
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d
Profile of Lin Zhang

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Photo Lin Zhang

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Paul Kardol @paulkardol.bsky.social · 2d
Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes

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Reposted by Francis Martin, David Stott

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 3d
Medieval agricultural and trade practices in southwestern Germany boosted plant diversity for centuries, with biodiversity peaking around 1000 CE and declining only when human activity contracted during the Black Death. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Q6ca50XxIvC
Woodcut illustration to Michael Beuther’s Calendarium Historicum, published in Frankfurt by David Zephelius in 1557. Image shows a person pollarding a tree and another person sowing seeds. CREDIT: The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.