Together with a team of great colleagues, we edit a collection titled "Harnessing plant microbiomes to improve performance and mechanistic understanding" nature.com/collections/cg… in the journals @natureportfolio.nature.com @microbiomej.bsky.social . It's open for submission till June 2026.

Exciting days at the #PMS2025! Our team joined the global plant microbiome community to present new insights into microbe-induced resistance and multitrophic interactions—one talk, two posters, and plenty of great discussions. Science grows better together! 🌿🤝 @microsos.bsky.social

Microbes boost pest mortality and parasitoid recruitment through complementary mechanisms

Rivero et al. @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social @eezcsic.bsky.social @axeltouw.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social @nmvandam.bsky.social @igzleibniz.bsky.social

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Monday morning throwback to our wonderful meeting on #chemodiversity in Großbeeren – hosted by @nmvandam.bsky.social. Again a big thank you to Matthias Erb, Karin Gorzolka, @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social, Stefan Dötterl, Eva Castells, John D'Auria and Kirsten Leiss for their enlightening contributions.

🌙🔬 ¡Hoy es la Noche Europea de los Investigadores!

Estaremos en el taller “Plantas, bichos y microbios: una historia de cinco reinos”, donde exploraremos las sorprendentes interacciones entre organismos en los agrosistemas 🌱🐛🦠

📍 Paseo del Salón, Granada
🕔 17:30
@eezcsic.bsky.social
#NIGHTspain

✨🌙 ¡La Noche Europea de los Investigadores ya ha comenzado!

Desde la EEZ-CSIC compartimos nuestra ciencia con tres talleres: plantas y bichos, microbiomas y nutrición animal y el mundo oculto visto con microscopía. ¡Visítanos en el stand de la @eezcsic.bsky.social!
🔬🌱🐄

@matthiaserb.bsky.social and @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social !

We’ve been a bit quiet on here lately… because we’ve been swamped with experiments! 🐛🌿

Spring is peak season in our lab — not just for plants, but also for the larvae we work with. When they thrive, so does our research! Here’s a look at what we’ve been up to in the greenhouses lately

Exploraremos cómo los microorganismos del microbioma vegetal ayudan a las plantas a defenderse de plagas y enfermedades, ofreciendo una alternativa natural y sostenible para la protección de cultivos en un contexto de agricultura ecológica.

@ainhoamartinez.bsky.social @molecolab.bsky.social

Preprint alert: We investigated how maize root bacteria - alone vs in community - tolerate and metabolise antimicrobial compounds of their host plant. The capacity to metabolise such a toxin impacted community size, structure and importantly, fitness.
Happy reading...
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It’s a pleasure to collaborate with this excellent team, and we look forward to continuing our work together.

Thank you, Mojca, for your dedication and contributions! See you soon! ✈️

Además de visibilizar la investigación en el ámbito agrario, el encuentro es un excelente ejercicio de formación, permitiendo a los doctorandos mejorar sus habilidades de comunicación científica y recibir feedback constructivo.

¡Un gran espacio para el futuro de la ciencia agraria! 🌾🧬

Excited to share 2nd milestone of 2025. I have been awarded
#MSCA-PostdoctoralFellowship to study microbe induce resistance to nematodes. I am grateful for the incredible support from mentors @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social @szytynska.bsky.social, colleagues @liverpooluni.bsky.social and wider community

Struggling with sharing your work? Have you felt the fear of visibility when is time to press "post"? Then you're not alone! We're having a FREE workshop to give you some tools that will help you stop hiding 🎊 Registration here ⇒ buff.ly/4idh0OV #AcademicSky #ECRchat #WomeninSTEM #Postdoc #NewPI

🔬🌱 ¡Nuestro grupo está en la XI Reunión del Grupo Especializado de Microbiología de Plantas de la SEM! 🦠📢

Durante estos días en Granada, parte de nuestro equipo está compartiendo su trabajo, intercambiando ideas y aprendiendo de los últimos avances en microbioma de plantas.
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#MiP2025 #SEM

🚨 Exciting News! The 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com will be organized next year, as part of MicroSOS Project! #PMS2025
📅 [3-7 November 2025] 📍 [Antequera, Spain, maps.app.goo.gl/mYYDqS7zeJZG...