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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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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 3d

Resources for assessing protein-protein interactions in #arbuscular #mycorrhizal roots: CKL2 as a case study

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#CommunityResource by Ivanov et al.

@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

14-3-3 RNA interference and proposed model.

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · 4d

"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

William Bond, defender of grasslands

In recent years, one of the loudest ideas in environmental policy has been that trees are the planet’s universal remedy. Plant enough of them, in enough places, and carbon will be soaked up, water wil...

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Ji Zhang @ecoloji.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Holidays!

Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social · 4d

Sorting through the mushroom photos I took last autumn in Vosges Mountains, I am struck again by their astonishing diversity. The clouded agaric (Clitocybe nebularis) emerged from the needle litter, pale and ghostlike, perfectly attuned to the quiet strangeness of the place

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Adam Frew @frewecologist.bsky.social · 5d

We need more of these kinds of studies.
A better grip on these fundamentals of AM fungal biology & ecology is needed if we hope to actually use AM fungi either as predictive signals or in land-management etc.

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