Francis M. Martin

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Microbiologist & Plant physiologist. Symbiosis, Mycorrhizae, Genomics, Plant-microbe interactions, Microbial ecology. Views are my own

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Big skies ... Meadows at the foot of Puy Chavaroche, Cantal Volcano ...

A new episode in our series on the evolution of mushrooms & #JGI #1KFG project has been released today in @CellGenomics ... Unearthing bonnet mushroom evolution. A huge collaboration worldwide

Walking on the edge of a volcano ... GR400, a stunning trail on the top of the ancient Cantal stratovolcano: Puy Mary, Brèche de Rolland, Puy de Peyre Arse ... Le GR400, un sentier remarquablement aérien sur les anciens volcans cantaliens ... Volcanoes of Cantal, #Auvergne

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Parasitism demands the work of specialists. We defined the weird and wonderful secondary metabolism of Escovopsis, fungal parasites of fungus-farming ants. Out today in @mSystemsJ! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... 🦠 🧪 🧫

"Pour qu’une forêt soit superbe Il lui faut l’âge et l’infini." - René Char

I will be speaking at the Annual JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in Walnut Creek, CA ... Will you be there? #JGI2024 LinkedIn: Joint Genome Institute X: @JGI Bluesky: @jgi.doe.gov Link: jointgeno.me/JGI2024

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Dog lichen is cool af

#NoMowMay ... bee orchids in June ... Ophrys apifera (Ophrys abeille)

La superbe série documentaire "L'arbre qui cache la forêt" sera diffusé sur Arte.tv à partir de ce soir à 19h00. Elle est d'ores et déjà disponible sur Arte.tv : www.arte.tv/fr/videos/10...

After the rain ... Papaver orientale "Turkish Delight"

I was thrilled by my field trip in the old-growth forests of Qinghai spruces and Przewalski’s junipers of the Qilian Mountains along the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau in Gansu Province, China ...

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Hydnellum peckii, the bleeding tooth fungus, can be found at the base of many evergreen trees in the Americas or parts of Europe. The young fruiting bodies produce red guttation ('sap') that has anti-coagulant properties similar to heparin that, while not very toxic, can be used as a dye.

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Join us! Registration is live for the JGI's Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting, to held in-person at the Walnut Creek Marriott 9/30-10/4. Learn more at jointgeno.me/JGI2024 🧬🖥️🧪🦠 #secmet #PlantScience @axelvisel.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @danudwary.secondarymetabolism.com

2024 Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting - JGI Annual User Meetingjointgeno.me Join us at our Annual JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting!

#EarthDay2024

The King of the Woodland Realm ...

Fifty Shades of Green ...

Awakening … hornbeam buds are bursting, all of a sudden my woods are turning green and the cold days are gone … C’est la grande bascule, soudain … la forêt s’habille de son vaste manteau vert …

Earth and Sky ...

COS-EMBL Workshop on Plant Macro- and Microbiomes – shaping new research frontiers www.embl.org/events/cos-e...

Plant Macro- and Microbiomes – shaping new research frontierswww.embl.org Explore with us the latest in plant biotic interactions research and its ecosystem impacts

The thin air carries the faint fragrance of spring awakening – the sweet scent of blackthorn bursting into flower ...

View from the owl nest ...

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Leaf day respiration involves multiple carbon sources and depends on previous dark metabolism

Leaf day respiration involves multiple carbon sources and depends on previous dark metabolismonlinelibrary.wiley.com Plant, Cell & Environment is an ecology journal analysing the ways plants respond to their environment including biological, physiological and ecological factors.

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A Black Morel found in freshly laid wood chips 📷🍄

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Mushrooms rule: Fungal community composition predicts forest carbon storage at a continental scale - Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46792-w

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Final version out in The Plant Journal Factors of global change affecting plants act at different levels of the ecological hierarchy w/ @jamesaorr.bsky.social & others 🧪 #ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.16509

Factors of global change affecting plants act at different levels of the ecological hierarchyonlinelibrary.wiley.com Our updated conceptual framework focusing on plants and terrestrial ecosystems responds to factors of global change that enter the ecological hierarchy at different levels. Propagation of effects (up....

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German-Spanish-Argentinean collaboration on haplotype-resolved Malbec 🍇🍷genome. Trio-binning used short reads from the parental varietals Prunelard and Magdeleine Noire des Charentes, which are both almost extinct academic.oup.com/hr/advance-a...

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Down by the River Alyn, amongst the wild garlic, something strange lurks for #wildflowerhour! As it emerges, the weird & wonderful parasitic plant, Toothwort, Lathraea squamaria, looks just like little gnashers! In the pic, top right, it might even give you a nip!!! 🦷

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Some technical terms in ecology also have every-day meaning. That is not always helpful for communication. Here I write about the term “community” in #ecology. Curious about your thoughts on this topic...let me know in the comments... 🧪 #scicomm open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

About the word 'community' in community ecologyopen.substack.com Careful with technical terms in ecology that have another meaning in everyday life

The Oak Brigade ...

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Pussy willow season here!