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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 1d

We're firmly into autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's once again time to share one of my favourite chemistry infographics on the kaleidoscope of chemical colours found in autumn leaves! 🍂
www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a...

#ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on the chemistry of the colours of autumn leaves. Green is caused by chlorophyll, carotenoids and flavonoids give yellows, and oranges come from carotenoids, which also contribute to reds along with anthocyanins.

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Muriel Viaud @muriel-viaud.bsky.social · 4d

www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/... Les champignons mycorhiziens à l’honneur ! 🍄‍🟫🌳 @fmartin54.bsky.social

Le langage des arbres

Christophe Galfard reçoit la poète Laura Vasquez et les deux scientifiques Francis Martin et Marie-Béatrice Bogeat.

www.radiofrance.fr

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Libération @liberation.fr · 9d

Beaucoup de champignons parasites sont à la fois Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde

La biologiste Audrey Dussutour alerte sur la menace fongique mondiale, mal prise en compte, aggravée par le commerce international et le réchauffement climatique

Beaucoup de champignons parasites sont à la fois Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde

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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · 5d

Après la journée des scolaires, les collègues @inrae-bioger.bsky.social se mobilisent ce week-end pour faire découvrir les #champignons - bons, brutes & truands ! - sous toutes leurs facettes au grand public pour la #FêteDeLaScience à l’ENS Paris-Saclay @univparissaclay.bsky.social. Venez nombreux !

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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · 7d

Collecte de champignons - bons, brutes ou truands !? - à présenter en fin de semaine à l'occasion de la #FêteDeLaScience 🔽

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Dan Kliebenstein @spicybotrytis.bsky.social · 5d

Repeating to link to the Secondary metabolism channel - Anyone have any literature on how yeast or other fungi detect plant phytohormones or other compounds? I am struggling with the search terms to find the genes that allow fungi to respond to plant compounds. #secmet #natprod

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Muriel Viaud @muriel-viaud.bsky.social · 6d

Les champignons, les bons🍄‍🟫🍺🥖, les brutes 🍄🍄‍🟫 et les truands 🍄‍🟫☘️c’est ce week-end ! @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @spsplantsciences.bsky.social #Phytopathologie mais aussi
#InteractionsMicrobiennes
#MetabolitesSpecialisés #ANR-FRiPPon

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Muriel Viaud @muriel-viaud.bsky.social · 14d

New class of anticancer compounds found in fungus cen.acs.org/biological-c...

New class of anticancer compounds found in fungus

Asperigimycin modified with lipid chain slows proliferation of leukemia cells

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inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-bioger.bsky.social · 20d

L’unité @inrae-bioger.bsky.social vous invite à la Fête de la Science au Village des Sciences à l’ENS Paris-Saclay @univparissaclay.bsky.social du 3 au 5 octobre 2025. Thème de l'atelier : "Les #champignons, le bon, la brute et le truand !"
bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/actualites/b...

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · Aug 28

First a pentamer, then a hexamer… now an octamer!

The riddle of the enigmatic CCG10-NLR immune receptor family cracked open 🔥

Congrats Guanghao @GuanghaoGuo He Zhang @mhz1989 Selva @M__Selvaraj et al.

#NLRbiology #plantsci #immunology

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Aug 18

On the way to work. Re-thinking every life choice.

#MondayMotivation

📷 James Gregory

A Sparrowhawk pauses mid-stride along a branch, one talon lifted and head tilted down, its intense yellow eyes fixed on the ground…the very picture of someone trudging to work while internally rethinking every choice they’ve ever made.

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Marc Stadler @ms-fungi.bsky.social · Aug 9

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Our new review on the secondary metabolites of coprophilous fungi has just been published by Natural Product Reports. Thanks for funding from the @humboldt-foundation.de foundation.de, the @dfg.de & the @daadworldwide.bsky.social Congrats to all coauthors!

Coprophilous fungi in the search for new antimicrobials and other beneficial natural products

Covering: up to 2025Microbial interactions involve complex processes shaped by their ecological contexts. Herbivore animal dung denotes an interesting ecological niche for the study of interorganism c...

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Muriel Viaud @muriel-viaud.bsky.social · Aug 9

UK is in the air, without Scotland though 😉

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · Jul 8

Attending #2025ISMPMI next week? Consider publishing your poster on Zenodo to get a doi and make it a citable unit. #OpenMPMI #OpenScience

More here: Why you should publish your posters kamounlab.medium.com/why-you-shou...

Why you should publish your posters

Publishing your poster in a DOI repository like Zenodo extends the lifespan of your poster beyond the conference, reaching audiences who…

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · May 3

A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

Panel One:
A scientist is giving a lecture. she stands at a lecturn. The current slide shows a list of the five kingdoms of living things: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera. She says "Most people assume that fungi are plants. Whereas in fact, they form a kingdom of their own."

Panbel Two:
Caption : After the lecture
The scientist now appears to be in a subterranean cave, before her stand two very large mushrooms guarding a larger, beardedmushroom who sits in athrone wearing a crown. One of the mushrooms says "His majesty is very pleased with the work you are doing."

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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · Jun 12

L’affaire des souches chinoises de #Fusarium graminearum interceptées aux États-Unis (suite), avec des éléments d’analyse mis en forme par @yannkerveno.bsky.social à retrouver dans le fil @revuesesame.bsky.social de la semaine 🔽

revue Sesame @revuesesame.bsky.social · Jun 12

🍄 Voilà une bien étrange histoire de champignons pour cette semaine.

Prenez une maladie du blé, des chercheurs chinois, des autorités américaines sur les dents et/ou un peu parano, une arrestation et vous obtenez un bouillon digne des meilleurs scénarios d’espionnage.

🖋️ @yannkerveno.bsky.social

Un fait pas si divers ? - Revue SESAME

Voilà bien étrange histoire de champignons. Prenez une maladie du blé, des chercheurs chinois, des autorités américaines sur les dents et/ou versant dans la paranoïa, une arrestation et vous obtenez u...

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · Jun 8

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

www.richmondscientific.com

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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · Jun 5

L’affaire des souches chinoises de #Fusarium graminearum interceptées aux États-Unis : mon analyse à chaud ▶️ zenodo.org/records/1560...

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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · Jun 5

My interview on BBC World Service as a podcast ▶️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
Thanks @peaseroland.bsky.social for the opportunity 🤗!

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · Jun 5

My interview with @wheatpath.bsky.social on this case of "agro terrorism" opens tonight's Science in Action. TL/DR: the fungus is widespread already in the US; it's treatable; it's not even on the international watchlist.
And research on it is important for farming.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

BBC World Service - Science In Action, Potential fungal “Agroterror”?

What is Fusarium graminearum and why were scientists allegedly smuggling it into the US?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · May 12

Ravi de partager en ce #PlantHealthDay ma "contribution photographique à l’inventaire des Pucciniales autour des Clayes-sous-Bois", avec + de 100 espèces de #rouilles 📷 présentées dans le Bulletin des Naturalistes des #Yvelines www.siteany78.org/
▶️ zenodo.org/records/1524...

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Isabelle Fudal @ifudal.bsky.social · May 21

#SFP2025 Amandine Le Ruyet from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the mode of action of a biocontrol molecule, the 4PBA

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Isabelle Fudal @ifudal.bsky.social · May 22

#SFP2025 Anne Genissel from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the evolution of plasticity of Zymoseptoria tritici

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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · Jun 3

We had the pleasure of welcoming James Brown from John Innes Centre for two days of engaging discussions with the #ADEP team and @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the durability of resistance to fungal diseases in wheat.

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Muriel Viaud @muriel-viaud.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're lucky to have cell biology expert Julien on board! 😊
#Botrytis & #Colletotrichum, watch out for your vesicles!
sco.lt/8Mp2TA 🔬🍄🌱

Portrait Jeune Chercheur – Julien Pernier, Chercheur en biologie cellulaire | Life Sciences Université Paris-Saclay

Julien Pernier est chargé de recherche INRAE, depuis 2024, dans l’unité BIOGER (INRAE/UPSaclay) à Palaiseau, au sein de l’équipe Effecteurs de la Communication Cellulaire à l’interface champignon - Pl...

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