ESA Plant-Soil Ecology
@esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social
Official account of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social Plant-Soil Ecology Special Interest Network.
https://www.ecolsoc.org.au/category/research-chapters/plant-soil-ecology/
https://www.ecolsoc.org.au/category/research-chapters/plant-soil-ecology/
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Congratulations to the winners from the Plant-Soil Symposium at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference last
week generously sponsored by the @britishecologicalsociety.org.
Thank you for supporting the fantastic research being led by these student researchers in plant–soil ecology in Australia!
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week generously sponsored by the @britishecologicalsociety.org.
Thank you for supporting the fantastic research being led by these student researchers in plant–soil ecology in Australia!
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Congratulations to the winners from the Plant-Soil Symposium at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference last
week generously sponsored by the @britishecologicalsociety.org.
Thank you for supporting the fantastic research being led by these student researchers in plant–soil ecology in Australia!
🧵
week generously sponsored by the @britishecologicalsociety.org.
Thank you for supporting the fantastic research being led by these student researchers in plant–soil ecology in Australia!
🧵
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Congratulations to the winners from the Plant-Soil Symposium at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference last
week generously sponsored by the @britishecologicalsociety.org.
Thank you for supporting the fantastic research being led by these student researchers in plant–soil ecology in Australia!
🧵
week generously sponsored by the @britishecologicalsociety.org.
Thank you for supporting the fantastic research being led by these student researchers in plant–soil ecology in Australia!
🧵
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👏Congratulations @westernsydneyu.bsky.social
researcher @chaoxiong.bsky.social
- awarded $475K #DECRA to boost crop resilience against climate extremes & pathogens. 🌱
🔗 Read more: westernsydney.edu.au/newscentre/n...
#ARC #Innovation #ClimateResilience #SustainableAgriculture 🌏
researcher @chaoxiong.bsky.social
- awarded $475K #DECRA to boost crop resilience against climate extremes & pathogens. 🌱
🔗 Read more: westernsydney.edu.au/newscentre/n...
#ARC #Innovation #ClimateResilience #SustainableAgriculture 🌏
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
👏Congratulations @westernsydneyu.bsky.social
researcher @chaoxiong.bsky.social
- awarded $475K #DECRA to boost crop resilience against climate extremes & pathogens. 🌱
🔗 Read more: westernsydney.edu.au/newscentre/n...
#ARC #Innovation #ClimateResilience #SustainableAgriculture 🌏
researcher @chaoxiong.bsky.social
- awarded $475K #DECRA to boost crop resilience against climate extremes & pathogens. 🌱
🔗 Read more: westernsydney.edu.au/newscentre/n...
#ARC #Innovation #ClimateResilience #SustainableAgriculture 🌏
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Meet @icom2026.bsky.social
Plenary speakers!
Dr Claire Veneault-Fourrey - from INRAE (Nancy, France) - will be opening the session "Genomic pathways and regulatory networks: molecular foundations of mycorrhizal adaptation and host interactions"
#ICOM2026
icom2026.org/speakers/
Plenary speakers!
Dr Claire Veneault-Fourrey - from INRAE (Nancy, France) - will be opening the session "Genomic pathways and regulatory networks: molecular foundations of mycorrhizal adaptation and host interactions"
#ICOM2026
icom2026.org/speakers/
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Meet @icom2026.bsky.social
Plenary speakers!
Dr Claire Veneault-Fourrey - from INRAE (Nancy, France) - will be opening the session "Genomic pathways and regulatory networks: molecular foundations of mycorrhizal adaptation and host interactions"
#ICOM2026
icom2026.org/speakers/
Plenary speakers!
Dr Claire Veneault-Fourrey - from INRAE (Nancy, France) - will be opening the session "Genomic pathways and regulatory networks: molecular foundations of mycorrhizal adaptation and host interactions"
#ICOM2026
icom2026.org/speakers/
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The 17 Newsletter is now available:
mycorrhizas.org/wp-content/u...
It includes @YouTube interviews with @mrillig #BeaBock #SmritiPehim (@BalaChaudhary lab).
Tools by #CamilleDelavaux & @ManjuMGupta Top 10 mycorrhizal papers. @ICOM2026 info & more!
Thanks @cesarmarin203 for this 🤗
mycorrhizas.org/wp-content/u...
It includes @YouTube interviews with @mrillig #BeaBock #SmritiPehim (@BalaChaudhary lab).
Tools by #CamilleDelavaux & @ManjuMGupta Top 10 mycorrhizal papers. @ICOM2026 info & more!
Thanks @cesarmarin203 for this 🤗
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The 17 Newsletter is now available:
mycorrhizas.org/wp-content/u...
It includes @YouTube interviews with @mrillig #BeaBock #SmritiPehim (@BalaChaudhary lab).
Tools by #CamilleDelavaux & @ManjuMGupta Top 10 mycorrhizal papers. @ICOM2026 info & more!
Thanks @cesarmarin203 for this 🤗
mycorrhizas.org/wp-content/u...
It includes @YouTube interviews with @mrillig #BeaBock #SmritiPehim (@BalaChaudhary lab).
Tools by #CamilleDelavaux & @ManjuMGupta Top 10 mycorrhizal papers. @ICOM2026 info & more!
Thanks @cesarmarin203 for this 🤗
✨ It was a pleasure to have @manjeet786.bsky.social from @westsyduhie.bsky.social join our symposium, presenting both a poster and a speed talk. He shared fascinating insights into how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can—and cannot—support sorghum in the fight against charcoal rot.
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
✨ It was a pleasure to have @manjeet786.bsky.social from @westsyduhie.bsky.social join our symposium, presenting both a poster and a speed talk. He shared fascinating insights into how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can—and cannot—support sorghum in the fight against charcoal rot.
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
Fascinating talk by Jiahoa Wen (@westsyduhie.bsky.social) on the differential response of plants to distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal communities
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Fascinating talk by Jiahoa Wen (@westsyduhie.bsky.social) on the differential response of plants to distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal communities
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
Can Australian tree phylogeny shape rhizosphere community assembly?
It mostly seems so…
Big thanks to PhD candidate Nicola Haggerty (@sydney.edu.au) for an intriguing talk on the relationship between aboveground controls and belowground communities.
It mostly seems so…
Big thanks to PhD candidate Nicola Haggerty (@sydney.edu.au) for an intriguing talk on the relationship between aboveground controls and belowground communities.
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Can Australian tree phylogeny shape rhizosphere community assembly?
It mostly seems so…
Big thanks to PhD candidate Nicola Haggerty (@sydney.edu.au) for an intriguing talk on the relationship between aboveground controls and belowground communities.
It mostly seems so…
Big thanks to PhD candidate Nicola Haggerty (@sydney.edu.au) for an intriguing talk on the relationship between aboveground controls and belowground communities.
Are you interested in phosphorus cycling by bacteria and archaea?
Keep an eye out for this massive work by PhD candidate Lachlan Curran on the ‘S.A.T.E’ framework for phosphorus cycling.
#ESA2025
Keep an eye out for this massive work by PhD candidate Lachlan Curran on the ‘S.A.T.E’ framework for phosphorus cycling.
#ESA2025
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Are you interested in phosphorus cycling by bacteria and archaea?
Keep an eye out for this massive work by PhD candidate Lachlan Curran on the ‘S.A.T.E’ framework for phosphorus cycling.
#ESA2025
Keep an eye out for this massive work by PhD candidate Lachlan Curran on the ‘S.A.T.E’ framework for phosphorus cycling.
#ESA2025
Over the moon for Rebecca Greening from UniSA for winning best inaugural presentation at #ESA2025 🌝
Can’t wait to see Rebecca’s future on soil microbes on Aussie rangelands!
Can’t wait to see Rebecca’s future on soil microbes on Aussie rangelands!
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Over the moon for Rebecca Greening from UniSA for winning best inaugural presentation at #ESA2025 🌝
Can’t wait to see Rebecca’s future on soil microbes on Aussie rangelands!
Can’t wait to see Rebecca’s future on soil microbes on Aussie rangelands!
Fantastic talk by Solomon Maerowitz-McMahon from @westsyduhie.bsky.social, showing that fire interval and severity influence mycorrhizal community structure but not function.
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fantastic talk by Solomon Maerowitz-McMahon from @westsyduhie.bsky.social, showing that fire interval and severity influence mycorrhizal community structure but not function.
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
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Well done to Genavieve (pictured below on the right) presenting at her first ever scientific conference!
Even better when your co-supervisor makes a special trip from Western Australia to support you 🥹
#ESA2025
@esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social
Even better when your co-supervisor makes a special trip from Western Australia to support you 🥹
#ESA2025
@esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Well done to Genavieve (pictured below on the right) presenting at her first ever scientific conference!
Even better when your co-supervisor makes a special trip from Western Australia to support you 🥹
#ESA2025
@esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social
Even better when your co-supervisor makes a special trip from Western Australia to support you 🥹
#ESA2025
@esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social
Winnie (@unimelb.bsky.social) show that soil microbes facilitate plant-plant interactions and coexistence among native annuals of southwest Australia
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Winnie (@unimelb.bsky.social) show that soil microbes facilitate plant-plant interactions and coexistence among native annuals of southwest Australia
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
Rebecca Greening (UniSA) is exploring the impacts of grazing on below-ground taxonomic and genetic diversity in Australian rangelands.
Ambitious PhD project—excited to see this work progress in such an iconic Australian ecosystem.
#ESA2025
Ambitious PhD project—excited to see this work progress in such an iconic Australian ecosystem.
#ESA2025
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Rebecca Greening (UniSA) is exploring the impacts of grazing on below-ground taxonomic and genetic diversity in Australian rangelands.
Ambitious PhD project—excited to see this work progress in such an iconic Australian ecosystem.
#ESA2025
Ambitious PhD project—excited to see this work progress in such an iconic Australian ecosystem.
#ESA2025
Xin Han from @westsyduhie.bsky.social is unravelling the effects of elevation on plant traits.
Why do tropical but not not subtropical forests follow expected treds. Looks like soil might be at play.
#ESA2025
Why do tropical but not not subtropical forests follow expected treds. Looks like soil might be at play.
#ESA2025
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Xin Han from @westsyduhie.bsky.social is unravelling the effects of elevation on plant traits.
Why do tropical but not not subtropical forests follow expected treds. Looks like soil might be at play.
#ESA2025
Why do tropical but not not subtropical forests follow expected treds. Looks like soil might be at play.
#ESA2025
Carbon dynamics in the Aussie Alps.
James King from ANU show that drought and warming combined flip dynamics from sink to source.
#ESA2025
James King from ANU show that drought and warming combined flip dynamics from sink to source.
#ESA2025
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Carbon dynamics in the Aussie Alps.
James King from ANU show that drought and warming combined flip dynamics from sink to source.
#ESA2025
James King from ANU show that drought and warming combined flip dynamics from sink to source.
#ESA2025
Kicking of our symposium is @camilletruong.bsky.social with a fascinating talk on the effect of feedbacks and mycorrhizal strategy on plant-soil feedbacks in heathy-woodland plants.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal but not ectomycorrhizal fungi were affected by heat. Very interesting 🤔.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal but not ectomycorrhizal fungi were affected by heat. Very interesting 🤔.
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Kicking of our symposium is @camilletruong.bsky.social with a fascinating talk on the effect of feedbacks and mycorrhizal strategy on plant-soil feedbacks in heathy-woodland plants.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal but not ectomycorrhizal fungi were affected by heat. Very interesting 🤔.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal but not ectomycorrhizal fungi were affected by heat. Very interesting 🤔.
We are excited to share the latest in plant-soil research in Australia today!
Come join our symposium in Riverbank room 2 from 13:30-17:00👇
Come join our symposium in Riverbank room 2 from 13:30-17:00👇
Ecological Society of Australia conference is already next week!
Our symposium "Functional biodiversity and bold insights from plant-soil ecology" will be on Wed (Nov 26) afternoon 130-530pm.
Cracker talks on 🔥❄️⛰️🚱🧬🫧🌿🐮🌾🍄 (did you guess them?!)
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
esa2025.org.au
Our symposium "Functional biodiversity and bold insights from plant-soil ecology" will be on Wed (Nov 26) afternoon 130-530pm.
Cracker talks on 🔥❄️⛰️🚱🧬🫧🌿🐮🌾🍄 (did you guess them?!)
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
esa2025.org.au
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We are excited to share the latest in plant-soil research in Australia today!
Come join our symposium in Riverbank room 2 from 13:30-17:00👇
Come join our symposium in Riverbank room 2 from 13:30-17:00👇
Do below-ground microbial communities follow established above-ground vegetation states. Maggie Logan from @latrobeuni.bsky.social says not really…
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Do below-ground microbial communities follow established above-ground vegetation states. Maggie Logan from @latrobeuni.bsky.social says not really…
#ESA2025
#ESA2025
Captivating talk by
@academic-gian.bsky.social on unravelling why Balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii) won’t grow—looks like microbes might be the bad guys!
#ESA2025
@academic-gian.bsky.social on unravelling why Balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii) won’t grow—looks like microbes might be the bad guys!
#ESA2025
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Captivating talk by
@academic-gian.bsky.social on unravelling why Balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii) won’t grow—looks like microbes might be the bad guys!
#ESA2025
@academic-gian.bsky.social on unravelling why Balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii) won’t grow—looks like microbes might be the bad guys!
#ESA2025
Intriguing talk by @mirimunro.bsky.social on the role of biocrust microbiomes to improve plant growth and restoration
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Intriguing talk by @mirimunro.bsky.social on the role of biocrust microbiomes to improve plant growth and restoration
Analysing the metabolic rate of tiny organisms (ants) at a macro-geographical scale
Fascinating work by @lilyleahy.bsky.social !
#ESA2025
Fascinating work by @lilyleahy.bsky.social !
#ESA2025
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Analysing the metabolic rate of tiny organisms (ants) at a macro-geographical scale
Fascinating work by @lilyleahy.bsky.social !
#ESA2025
Fascinating work by @lilyleahy.bsky.social !
#ESA2025
How listing threatened ecological communities can conserve ‘dark taxa’
Fantastic talk by Dr Tom Collins. And well done @nswgov.bsky.social for leading the way in species and ecological community conservation in Australia.
#ESA2025
Fantastic talk by Dr Tom Collins. And well done @nswgov.bsky.social for leading the way in species and ecological community conservation in Australia.
#ESA2025
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
How listing threatened ecological communities can conserve ‘dark taxa’
Fantastic talk by Dr Tom Collins. And well done @nswgov.bsky.social for leading the way in species and ecological community conservation in Australia.
#ESA2025
Fantastic talk by Dr Tom Collins. And well done @nswgov.bsky.social for leading the way in species and ecological community conservation in Australia.
#ESA2025
Dr Jess Marsh discusses how invertebrates are severely underfunded in conservation assessments in Australia.
And what about fungi…
#ESA2025
And what about fungi…
#ESA2025
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Dr Jess Marsh discusses how invertebrates are severely underfunded in conservation assessments in Australia.
And what about fungi…
#ESA2025
And what about fungi…
#ESA2025
November 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM