Is there an economics spectrum in fungi?

Yes, there is. The story of our recent paper in Nature Communications (led by Tessa Camenzind )

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This is such an inspiring and encouraging story for women! Thank you for sharing Toby Kiers

Happy to share the ideas I have been brewing with Sidney Stürmer et al. great colleagues working on #AMF traits. 'Establishing a Standardized Approach for Elucidating Glomeromycota Life-History Traits: Advancing Consistency in Mycorrhizal Fungi Research.' doi.org/10.22541/au.17…

1/ When studying the ecology of animals or plants, many of the life history details required to formulate the research questions and to design the study fall into the category of the obvious, or at least easy to assess. In microbial ecology, nothing is obvious.

‘Here we argue on methodological grounds that the presumption of a fungal language is premature and unsupported by the evidence presented, that the voltage fluctuations he detects are likely to originate as nonbiological noise and experimental artifacts’

I am so happy this paper is out! A great milestone towards understanding life-history and metabolic trade-offs in fungi!

Ten years of our lab's work integrated in a paper on the fungal economics spectrum.

Huge congratulations to Tessa for leading this amazing effort, and all co-authors, lab members past and present. 🥳

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This interesting study led by Rebeca Oliva and Rainer Joergensen just came out in ISME Communications . It shows that the amino sugars galactosamine and mannosamine represent potential biomarkers for microbial EPS in soil SoilSystems
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In-depth analysis of fungal specificity for plants and vice versa published in EMIR. Took 15 months under review and effort of 10 reviewers. Open access: …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Workshop on 'The role of Fungi in the Amazonian Bioeconomy' in Maranhão, Brazil, 27-30 May. Support for up to 15 #PhD candidates and early-career #research ers from the UK to attend.
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