Valeria Flores Almaraz
@valeriafloral.bsky.social
Mexican biologist 🇲🇽 Estonian winter survivor 👾 PhD student at University of Tartu 🇪🇪 Bioinformatics amateur 💻 Mycology enthusiast 🍄🟫🌲
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Using long-read sequences, DNA-based taxonomy, and phylogenetics, researchers described species higher taxa of the most common previously unrecognised fungal lineages.
Read more on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/22/s...
Read more on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/22/s...
Shining a light on dark taxa: new fungal phyla and classes revealed by eDNA long reads
Researchers have used "innovative taxonomy" to describe more than 100 fungal taxa based on long reads, characteristic nucleotides and env-samples.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Using long-read sequences, DNA-based taxonomy, and phylogenetics, researchers described species higher taxa of the most common previously unrecognised fungal lineages.
Read more on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/22/s...
Read more on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/22/s...
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New #Preprint: “Migration should be a personal choice, not the only one – a reflection on scientific diasporas”, published in #ARPHA preprints @pensoft.net
Here we discuss how scientific diaporas have operated so far & how to make them Functional!
doi.org/10.3897/arph...
Here we discuss how scientific diaporas have operated so far & how to make them Functional!
doi.org/10.3897/arph...
October 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
New #Preprint: “Migration should be a personal choice, not the only one – a reflection on scientific diasporas”, published in #ARPHA preprints @pensoft.net
Here we discuss how scientific diaporas have operated so far & how to make them Functional!
doi.org/10.3897/arph...
Here we discuss how scientific diaporas have operated so far & how to make them Functional!
doi.org/10.3897/arph...
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🎉 Our study on the diversity of avocado fungal e
#endophytes in orchards under contrasting management is now out! 🍄🌳🥑
Next step: assessing their antifungal and entomopathogenic activity 💀🪲
#endophytes in orchards under contrasting management is now out! 🍄🌳🥑
Next step: assessing their antifungal and entomopathogenic activity 💀🪲
August 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
🎉 Our study on the diversity of avocado fungal e
#endophytes in orchards under contrasting management is now out! 🍄🌳🥑
Next step: assessing their antifungal and entomopathogenic activity 💀🪲
#endophytes in orchards under contrasting management is now out! 🍄🌳🥑
Next step: assessing their antifungal and entomopathogenic activity 💀🪲
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Beneath the pines, fungi fuel the forest 🌲❤️🍄
In her PhD thesis, Katharine King reveals how ectomycorrhizal fungi weather minerals and mobilize nitrogen—powering tree growth, nutrient cycling, and carbon storage in boreal forests.
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In her PhD thesis, Katharine King reveals how ectomycorrhizal fungi weather minerals and mobilize nitrogen—powering tree growth, nutrient cycling, and carbon storage in boreal forests.
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August 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Beneath the pines, fungi fuel the forest 🌲❤️🍄
In her PhD thesis, Katharine King reveals how ectomycorrhizal fungi weather minerals and mobilize nitrogen—powering tree growth, nutrient cycling, and carbon storage in boreal forests.
www.slu.se/en/news/2025...
In her PhD thesis, Katharine King reveals how ectomycorrhizal fungi weather minerals and mobilize nitrogen—powering tree growth, nutrient cycling, and carbon storage in boreal forests.
www.slu.se/en/news/2025...
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Tadpoles have...TEETH?! An evolutionary novelty of anuran tadpoles, the taxonomic distribution of keratinized labial teeth remains a mystery. Yet here, variation in row number was studied in a phylogenetic context!
If you're bitten by a tadpole do you turn into a frog..? 🌍🧪👇
If you're bitten by a tadpole do you turn into a frog..? 🌍🧪👇
Diversity and development of labial tooth row formulae in tadpoles
Abstract. Keratinized labial teeth of the oral apparatus are a conspicuous evolutionary novelty of anuran tadpoles. Although several comparative studies ha
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August 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Tadpoles have...TEETH?! An evolutionary novelty of anuran tadpoles, the taxonomic distribution of keratinized labial teeth remains a mystery. Yet here, variation in row number was studied in a phylogenetic context!
If you're bitten by a tadpole do you turn into a frog..? 🌍🧪👇
If you're bitten by a tadpole do you turn into a frog..? 🌍🧪👇
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Great to see this really cool story (see quoted post) published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
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Congratulations @laravdijck.bsky.social, @parkergroup.bsky.social!
Plant-Scopoletin-Fungal Endophyte-Iron
#PlantScience #Coumarin #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition
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Congratulations @laravdijck.bsky.social, @parkergroup.bsky.social!
Plant-Scopoletin-Fungal Endophyte-Iron
#PlantScience #Coumarin #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition
August 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Great to see this really cool story (see quoted post) published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations @laravdijck.bsky.social, @parkergroup.bsky.social!
Plant-Scopoletin-Fungal Endophyte-Iron
#PlantScience #Coumarin #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations @laravdijck.bsky.social, @parkergroup.bsky.social!
Plant-Scopoletin-Fungal Endophyte-Iron
#PlantScience #Coumarin #PlantImmunity #PlantNutrition
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August 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Can you fool a plant into mis-identifying a beneficial symbiont? Yes you can! Check out our new paper where we use comparative transcriptomics to identify bi-functional signalling hubs controlling pathogenesis and mutualism in Eucalyptus. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
Eucalyptus grandis MYB‐Like and RAN‐Like Zinc Finger Proteins Display Dual Roles in Regulating Plant Immunity and Symbiosis Pathways
Plant roots live in constant contact with diverse microbes in the soil. Plant fitness, therefore, relies on signaling pathways that mount an effective immune response against pathogens while fosterin...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Can you fool a plant into mis-identifying a beneficial symbiont? Yes you can! Check out our new paper where we use comparative transcriptomics to identify bi-functional signalling hubs controlling pathogenesis and mutualism in Eucalyptus. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
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🍄 #Typification: fixing fungal names
Many species of fungi were described long ago with only a short phrase or drawing-no type (reference) specimen!
This #FunDive campaign aims to collect type specimens & sequence DNA to anchor names and stabilize taxonomy. #Biodiversa
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Many species of fungi were described long ago with only a short phrase or drawing-no type (reference) specimen!
This #FunDive campaign aims to collect type specimens & sequence DNA to anchor names and stabilize taxonomy. #Biodiversa
🌍 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
August 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🍄 #Typification: fixing fungal names
Many species of fungi were described long ago with only a short phrase or drawing-no type (reference) specimen!
This #FunDive campaign aims to collect type specimens & sequence DNA to anchor names and stabilize taxonomy. #Biodiversa
🌍 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
Many species of fungi were described long ago with only a short phrase or drawing-no type (reference) specimen!
This #FunDive campaign aims to collect type specimens & sequence DNA to anchor names and stabilize taxonomy. #Biodiversa
🌍 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
Reposted by Valeria Flores Almaraz
Plant-microbe interactions amid global change
Commentary by @fdiniandreote.bsky.social examining research directions toward effectively harnessing plant-microbe interactions to promote plant & ecosystem tolerance amid global change scenarios
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Commentary by @fdiniandreote.bsky.social examining research directions toward effectively harnessing plant-microbe interactions to promote plant & ecosystem tolerance amid global change scenarios
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Plant-microbe interactions amid global change
Terrestrial plants have ancient evolutionary relationships with microbes. Global change
alters these interactions, with impacts on natural and agricultural ecosystems. This
commentary outlines an over...
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August 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Plant-microbe interactions amid global change
Commentary by @fdiniandreote.bsky.social examining research directions toward effectively harnessing plant-microbe interactions to promote plant & ecosystem tolerance amid global change scenarios
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Commentary by @fdiniandreote.bsky.social examining research directions toward effectively harnessing plant-microbe interactions to promote plant & ecosystem tolerance amid global change scenarios
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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New online! The wood microbiome inside living trees
The wood microbiome inside living trees
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 18 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01236-0This study presents the microbiome inhabiting the wood of living trees.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
New online! The wood microbiome inside living trees
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We have simulated root exudation with microdialysis to stimulate soil microbes.Lots of method optimization & hard work from all coauthors has gone into this, pushed over the finish line by Andreas Schneider. Really happy to see this published looking forward to what’s next! doi.org/10.1186/s128...
Reverse microdialysis of sucrose stimulates soil fungal and bacterial growth at the microscale - BMC Microbiology
Background The rhizosphere is a critical microenvironment that plays key roles in plant nutrient availability, largely due to root interactions with rhizospheric microbes. However, we lack suitable me...
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August 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We have simulated root exudation with microdialysis to stimulate soil microbes.Lots of method optimization & hard work from all coauthors has gone into this, pushed over the finish line by Andreas Schneider. Really happy to see this published looking forward to what’s next! doi.org/10.1186/s128...
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Nice to see in print at @newphyt.bsky.social the outcome of our collaborative genetic study of the ubiquitous ectomycorrhizal Pisolithus microcarpus. Special shout out to Ben Dauphin & Maira Pereira, with Daniel Croll & other 🇨🇭🇧🇷 friends + @jgi.doe.gov + @umr-iam.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Nice to see in print at @newphyt.bsky.social the outcome of our collaborative genetic study of the ubiquitous ectomycorrhizal Pisolithus microcarpus. Special shout out to Ben Dauphin & Maira Pereira, with Daniel Croll & other 🇨🇭🇧🇷 friends + @jgi.doe.gov + @umr-iam.bsky.social
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First PhD chapter of our student Rosaura Alfaro is out in @annalsapplbio.bsky.social 🥳
We discuss the relevance of #pathobiomes for sustainable agriculture, reviewing mechanisms and proposing research avenues for understudied crops. 🦠🍄🌱
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We discuss the relevance of #pathobiomes for sustainable agriculture, reviewing mechanisms and proposing research avenues for understudied crops. 🦠🍄🌱
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Modulation of the rhizosphere microbiome by soil‐borne pathogens: Digging into the pathobiome concept
Soil-borne pathogens induce compositional and functional shifts in rhizosphere microbiomes. The study of such pathobiomes could help establish disease resistance markers, identify key microbial taxa ...
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August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
First PhD chapter of our student Rosaura Alfaro is out in @annalsapplbio.bsky.social 🥳
We discuss the relevance of #pathobiomes for sustainable agriculture, reviewing mechanisms and proposing research avenues for understudied crops. 🦠🍄🌱
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
We discuss the relevance of #pathobiomes for sustainable agriculture, reviewing mechanisms and proposing research avenues for understudied crops. 🦠🍄🌱
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Outcome of soil microbiome transplants is controlled more by selective pressures of recipient soil environment (habitat filtering) than original composition of transplanted community, emphasising habitat’s characteristics, not microbiota origin, determine transplant success👇
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Habitat filtering more than microbiota origin controls microbiome transplant outcomes in soil
Abstract. Human activities cause a global loss of soil microbiome diversity and functionality. One way to reverse this trend is through microbiota transpla
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August 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Outcome of soil microbiome transplants is controlled more by selective pressures of recipient soil environment (habitat filtering) than original composition of transplanted community, emphasising habitat’s characteristics, not microbiota origin, determine transplant success👇
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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Nice to see our article 'Comparative transcriptomics uncovers poplar and fungal genetic determinants of ectomycorrhizal compatibility' in print in The Plant Journal ... many years of collaboration between many teams
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July 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Nice to see our article 'Comparative transcriptomics uncovers poplar and fungal genetic determinants of ectomycorrhizal compatibility' in print in The Plant Journal ... many years of collaboration between many teams
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Can protecting plant diversity safeguard fungal diversity?
Out today in Nature Communications, our study led by @laura-vangalen.bsky.social tackles this question using global maps of plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today in Nature Communications, our study led by @laura-vangalen.bsky.social tackles this question using global maps of plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global divergence in plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity hotspots - Nature Communications
This study shows that aboveground plant diversity is only weakly related to belowground mycorrhizal fungal diversity, although these relationships can be stronger at regional scales. Therefore, conser...
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August 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Can protecting plant diversity safeguard fungal diversity?
Out today in Nature Communications, our study led by @laura-vangalen.bsky.social tackles this question using global maps of plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today in Nature Communications, our study led by @laura-vangalen.bsky.social tackles this question using global maps of plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Available now - online and open access: July 2025 issue of Field Mycology, published by the BMS. Access all articles online and free, here fieldmycology.org Front cover image: Neoboletus specimen growing with Quercus (oak), South Lancashire, UK. Photo: Mike Roberts, northwalesmushrooms
July 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Available now - online and open access: July 2025 issue of Field Mycology, published by the BMS. Access all articles online and free, here fieldmycology.org Front cover image: Neoboletus specimen growing with Quercus (oak), South Lancashire, UK. Photo: Mike Roberts, northwalesmushrooms
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A nice collaboration with Hai‐Sheng Yuan and his team from CAS: 'Host adaptation is driving genome evolution and ecological speciation in the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Tricholoma' in Journal of Systematics and Evolution
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July 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A nice collaboration with Hai‐Sheng Yuan and his team from CAS: 'Host adaptation is driving genome evolution and ecological speciation in the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Tricholoma' in Journal of Systematics and Evolution
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doi.org/10.1111/jse....
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Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus. Haplotype-resolved, it has 700-fold greater contiguity—
meaning the genome is reconstructed in larger, more complete segments. 🖥️🧬 🌱
More on our Plant Program: jgi.doe.gov/science-prog...
@axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov
meaning the genome is reconstructed in larger, more complete segments. 🖥️🧬 🌱
More on our Plant Program: jgi.doe.gov/science-prog...
@axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov
New and Improved: Eucalyptus Reference is Now Accessible | Joint Genome Institute
An improved genome assembly to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.
jgi.doe.gov
July 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus. Haplotype-resolved, it has 700-fold greater contiguity—
meaning the genome is reconstructed in larger, more complete segments. 🖥️🧬 🌱
More on our Plant Program: jgi.doe.gov/science-prog...
@axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov
meaning the genome is reconstructed in larger, more complete segments. 🖥️🧬 🌱
More on our Plant Program: jgi.doe.gov/science-prog...
@axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov
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Puccinia punctata ex Galium sylvaticum
#Pucciniapunctata #Puccinia #rust #rost #rostpilz #rustfungus #Galiumsylvaticum #Waldlabkraut #woodbedstraw #scotchmist #Gailletdesbois #Galium #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #Phytopathology
#Pucciniapunctata #Puccinia #rust #rost #rostpilz #rustfungus #Galiumsylvaticum #Waldlabkraut #woodbedstraw #scotchmist #Gailletdesbois #Galium #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #Phytopathology
July 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Puccinia punctata ex Galium sylvaticum
#Pucciniapunctata #Puccinia #rust #rost #rostpilz #rustfungus #Galiumsylvaticum #Waldlabkraut #woodbedstraw #scotchmist #Gailletdesbois #Galium #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #Phytopathology
#Pucciniapunctata #Puccinia #rust #rost #rostpilz #rustfungus #Galiumsylvaticum #Waldlabkraut #woodbedstraw #scotchmist #Gailletdesbois #Galium #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #Phytopathology
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New paper!
Complexity of combined abiotic stresses to crop plants
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Complexity of combined abiotic stresses to crop plants
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Complexity of combined abiotic stresses to crop plants
Plants frequently encounter combined abiotic stress factors such as heat and drought, salinity and drought, and flooding and salinity, which impact th…
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July 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
New paper!
Complexity of combined abiotic stresses to crop plants
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Complexity of combined abiotic stresses to crop plants
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Pro tip for writers:
Read your text out loud when you're done with your paper. you'll catch lots of errors.
Even better (updated 2025!): Use your computer 🖥️ to read it to you, and you sit and take notes. You'll catch even more🔥
Read your text out loud when you're done with your paper. you'll catch lots of errors.
Even better (updated 2025!): Use your computer 🖥️ to read it to you, and you sit and take notes. You'll catch even more🔥
July 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Pro tip for writers:
Read your text out loud when you're done with your paper. you'll catch lots of errors.
Even better (updated 2025!): Use your computer 🖥️ to read it to you, and you sit and take notes. You'll catch even more🔥
Read your text out loud when you're done with your paper. you'll catch lots of errors.
Even better (updated 2025!): Use your computer 🖥️ to read it to you, and you sit and take notes. You'll catch even more🔥
Reposted by Valeria Flores Almaraz
Our latest work with @colauttilab.bsky.social is out today!
Always great to work with Rob, one of the best evolutionary biologists out there. We hope this work sparks some important conversations on allelopathy and reproducibility in ecological research.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Always great to work with Rob, one of the best evolutionary biologists out there. We hope this work sparks some important conversations on allelopathy and reproducibility in ecological research.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Our latest work with @colauttilab.bsky.social is out today!
Always great to work with Rob, one of the best evolutionary biologists out there. We hope this work sparks some important conversations on allelopathy and reproducibility in ecological research.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Always great to work with Rob, one of the best evolutionary biologists out there. We hope this work sparks some important conversations on allelopathy and reproducibility in ecological research.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Valeria Flores Almaraz
Mountain birch ectomycorrhizas
July 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Mountain birch ectomycorrhizas