Francis M. Martin
Microbiologist & Plant physiologist. Symbiosis, Mycorrhizae, Genomics, Plant-microbe interactions, Microbial ecology. Views are my own
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- Root‐mycorrhizal foraging strategies shift with forest age more than with nitrogen manipulation - Ding - 2025 - Ecological Monographs - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Francis M. MartinThe February cover of "Ecological Monographs" gets right to the root! This larch root & its fuzzy fungal partner were photographed as part of a study showing how roots & fungal allies shift their foraging strategies as forests age Find the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15577015...
- Towards ‘digital ecology’: Advances in integrating artificial intelligence from data generation to ecological insight besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by Francis M. MartinSave the date! 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions 📅 13–16 October 2026 📍 Leysin, Switzerland www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience
- Reposted by Francis M. Martin🌱IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award🍄 🎉Congrats to Maycon Cristiano Barbosa 🇧🇷 🏆 Latin America awardee Award supported by the New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt.bsky.social This award supports his participation with an oral presentation at #ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza
- Reposted by Francis M. Martin🌱 IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award 🍄 Congrats to Amara Santiesteban-Serrano 🇪🇸 🏆 Europe awardee Supported by the New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt. This award supports her participation with oral presentation at #ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza @csic.es
- Reposted by Francis M. Martin🌱 IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award 🍄 Congrats to Beatrice M. Bock USA 🏆 North America awardee Supported by The New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt.bsky.social This award supports her participation with oral presentation at #ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza
- Reposted by Francis M. Martin🌱 IMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award 🍄 Congrats to Ningkang Sun 🇨🇳 🏆 Asia awardee Supported by The New Phytologist Foundation @newphyt.bsky.social This award supports her attendance at #ICOM2026, where she will give an oral presentation #Mycorrhiza
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- Reposted by Francis M. MartinWhen happens to fungi when forests become farms? New research from @thecrobe.bsky.social and team shows agricultural conversion in the tropics eliminated ~80% of soil mycorrhizal fungal diversity. Open access paper: buff.ly/BsGYDht
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- Reposted by Francis M. MartinC’est officiel ! L'INRAE recrute : @umr-iam.bsky.social propose un poste permanent de chargé(e) de recherche sur l’effet du #microbiote sur la #santé des #arbres. ➡️ Rendez-vous sur jobs.inrae.fr/concours/con... avant le 5 mars 2026 pour postuler !
- Reposted by Francis M. MartinIt’s now official! INRAE is recruiting: @umr-iam.bsky.social is offering a permanent position as a research scientist to study the effect of #microbiota on #tree #health. Visit jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp... before March 5, 2026 to apply !
- Reposted by Francis M. MartinA permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!
- It’s now official! INRAE is recruiting: @inrae-bioger.bsky.social is offering a permanent position as a research scientist to identify #plant #susceptibility factors to #fungal diseases. Visit jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp... before March 5, 2026 to apply!
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- Reposted by Francis M. MartinICYMI: New online! Tree bark microbiota in climate-active gas cycling
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- Bonne journée 🌞😉
- Reposted by Francis M. MartinWhat enables a fungus to invade a mammal host? @marco-guerreiro.bsky.social unravels signatures of translation adaptation among pathogenic and non-pathogenic species of Trichosporonales. See more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Excellent snow on the Vercors Plateau in the Alps.
- I'm delighted to inform you that our paper "Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus" was published in IMA Fungus. A long standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan at RISF, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou: imafungus.pensoft.net/articles.php...
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- Reposted by Francis M. MartinExcited to share our new investigation of Prototaxites! We found no support for a fungal affinity and instead suggest it is best considered an entirely extinct complex eukaryotic lineage Great team effort @transitionalform.bsky.social Corentin Loron, and many others! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Francis M. MartinOur paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
- Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Francis M. Martin📖Published! Soil depth-dependent relationships between biodiversity and function in subtropical forest conversion 🌴 Our results indicate that the effect of forest conversion on biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships depends on soil depth🌱 Read more: buff.ly/ICFq3Ya
- Reposted by Francis M. MartinNew paper out in Global Change Biology Cheng et al. Stressor Combinations Shift Soil Microbial Communities From Rare to Unknown Taxa and Alter Genomic Strategies w/ @manudelbaq.bsky.social & others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Extensive horizontal transfer of transposable elements shapes fungal mobilomes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Francis M. Martin🍄Transposon traffic in the mycocosmos🍄 Fascinating work reveals extensive horizontal TE transfer across fungi (@jromeijn.bsky.social, Iñigo Bañales & @mfseidl.bsky.social; doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...). I wrote a Dispatch to prime non-specialists,check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... #TEworldwide
- Les plantes sont bien plus bavardes que vous ne le pensez theconversation.com/les-plantes-...
- Les plantes aussi ont un microbiote – pourrait-on s’en servir pour se passer de phytosanitaires ? theconversation.com/les-plantes-...
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- Reposted by Francis M. MartinMy work characterizing the traits of pyrophilous fungi via genomics, transcriptomics, and bioassays! @dylan-j-enright.bsky.social @petehomyak.bsky.social @mjwilkins.bsky.social funded by @departmentofenergy.bsky.social @usdagov.bsky.social #fire #fungi #science @pnas.org
- Pyrophilous fungi are fungal species that thrive after wildfire. A genetic analysis of this group uncovered an ecologically important tradeoff between fast growth and the ability to break down post-fire aromatic carbon compounds. In PNAS: ow.ly/1A2P50XVxZc
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- Reposted by Francis M. Martin1/🧵 Major milestone unlocked for mycology! 🍄 We just published a massive genomic resource in 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚, releasing 2,695 complete circular mitochondrial species assembled from public data This single dataset nearly 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒 📈the known mitochondrial diversity of the Kingdom Fungi rdcu.be/eYZ2h
- Reposted by Francis M. MartinSPUN and NYU Law’s More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Program have partnered on a new initiative to support SPUN’s Underground Explorers grantees in advocating for mycorrhizal fungal communities across Earth's ecosystems. 🔗 Find out more about the Underground Advocates Program: buff.ly/KhbJmvS
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