FEMS Microbiology Letters publishes excellent, short research stories with robust insights. Here are a few papers that seek to understand the real-world impact of microbial influences on agriculture, biogeochemical cycles, and clinical diagnosis, all with clear take-home messages buff.ly/0O6hQOh

Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!

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Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active?
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Intense farming weighs heavily on soil quality! 🌱
Meet arbuscular mycorrhizal #fungi (AMF)🍄, symbionts that help plants acquire nutrients.
Rog et al. explore which soils benefit most from AMF in #FEMSMicrobiolLett.
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Phylogenetic, geographical and mycorrhizal relation of 413 woody genera. (a) The phylogenetic tree nodes are shaded to differentiate between the gymnosperm and angiosperm clades. The tips are coloured to represent the mycorrhizal association types (EM, AM and dual). The outer rings indicate the presence or absence (colour or white) of each genus tip on each of the four defined ecoregions; Tropics, Temperate, Desert and Boreal/Tundra. (b) A scatter plot showing the SES-Mean Phylogenetic Distance (MPD) Z-scores.

The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species Abiotic factors influence the global distribution of mycorrhizal host plants (ectomycorrhizal fungi and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi), raising the possibility that dual associations with both mycorrh...

New paper! The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species. Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dual-host woody species occupy a broader geographical range and environmental niche space compared to those associating exclusively with either AM or EM.

Mycorrhizal inoculation success depends on soil health and crop productivity Abstract. As the human population grows, so does the demand for higher agricultural yields. As a result, agricultural intensification practices are increas

New paper- "Mycorrhizal inoculation success depends on soil health and crop productivity"

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Mycorrhizal inoculation success depends on soil health and crop productivity Abstract. As the human population grows, so does the demand for higher agricultural yields. As a result, agricultural intensification practices are increas

Mycorrhizal inoculation success depends on soil health and crop productivity

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We are looking for a new PhD student, exploring whether ancient microbiomes can help us to develop a more sustainable agriculture. Deadline for application: 15th of December. We have a very nice team (I think...) and this is in an excellent consortium with top scientists from all over the World.