Christine Strullu-Derrien
chistinesd.bsky.social
Christine Strullu-Derrien
@chistinesd.bsky.social
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Do all the ash trees dying across the United States concern you? It’s time to fight back with fungi. New paper just out on the fungi that can kill emerald ash borer adults: doi.org/10.3390/f161...
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Plant EvoDevo and EvoMPMI people - consider applying to UBC, their science (and weather) is great!
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Researchers present three new species and two new records of the genus 𝐿𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎 from subtropical China based on morphological and multi-locus phylogenetic evidence.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/myco...
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Meet Plenary speakers of @icom2026.bsky.social

Prof. Marc-André Selosse - from Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris) - will be opening the session "Moving forward while looking into the past: How the evolutionary history of mycorrhizas informs future adaptation pathways" #ICOM2026
September 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It was a pleasure to visit the fossil plant sites around Angers with Prof Jiri Kvacek and his student from Prague last week
September 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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📢 Last chance to submit your abstract, apply for a travel grant and take advantage of early bird registration for our upcoming #symposium, '#Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life'!

Deadline: 12 May

👉 www.newphytologist.org/symposia/eic

#PlantScience
May 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern hemisphere before moving north – and beyond
Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over the world
A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern hemisphere before moving north – and beyond
www.newscientist.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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New paper out in: “Bring back the phenotype”.

Sewall Wright was right all along. After a century, it is time to catch up!

Nice writing with Mike Wade from Indiana University, who has provided empirical evidence of group selection since 1976!

doi.org/10.1111/nph....

@newphyt.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Most land plants team with mycorrhizal fungi to survive. This ancient partnership has helped both plants and fungi thrive over much of Earth.

Learn more on #EarthDay: scim.ag/4cMgplJ
April 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Et voilà le résultat ! Si vous l'avez manquée en direct, vous pouvez (ré)écouter l'émission : tinyurl.com/2a62nz3y ou sur l'application RadioFrance !
Colonisation des plantes : les pieds sur terre
Il y a environ 500 millions d’années, les plantes aquatiques colonisaient la terre ferme, entraînant à leur suite les vertébrés herbivores. Que connaît-on des mécanismes à l’origine de cette sortie de...
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April 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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[RDV 16h !] Il y a env. 500 Ma, les plantes aquatiques colonisaient la terre ferme. Que connaît-on des mécanismes à l’origine de cette sortie des eaux ? Quelles ont été les adaptations nécessaires ? tinyurl.com/2a62nz3y avec Pierre-Marc Delaux, @huguesrenault.bsky.social & Christine Strullu-Derrien
April 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM