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van der Heijden Lab
@vandeHeijdenLab
Plant-Soil Interactions Group at @Agroscope, and the Agroecology & Plant-Microbiome Interactions Group at @UZH_ch led by Prof. Marcel van der Heijden.
Zurich, Switzerland
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    Apr 21, 2020
    Do you want to know why we are so fascinated by the #symbiosis between #mycorrhizal #fungi and land plants? Have a look at this picture. Left a grassland microcosm inoculated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and right a microcosm without. Initially they were exactly the same!
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    Sep 27, 2022
    Last year we buried over 2000 pieces of underwear and 12000 teabags with 1000 volunteers to estimate soil health. This Wednesday first results will be presented. We found thousands of microbial taxa and results point to the importance of land use and soil carbon. @SFranzBender1
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    Aug 23, 2022
    Soil Microbiomes and One Health. Our review in @NatureRevMicro is out. We demonstrate that soils are a cornerstone of one health. We list over 40 soil microbiome functions that contribute to soil, plant, animal and human health. @sbanerjee2018 nature.com/articles/s4157…
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    Jun 8, 2023
    Our new paper demonstrates patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe. We analysed 715 sites and detected 79’000 bacterial taxa and 25’000 fungal taxa. Pathogens were most abundant in cropland while fungal symbionts dominated in woodland. see: nature.com/articles/s4146…
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    Aug 8, 2023
    In our new study we estimate that soils harbour 59% of the global biodiversity and are the most species rich habitat on Earth. Over 500 million species/ taxa are associated to soil. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… @MAnthony02; @SFranzBender1; @UZH_en; @agroscope; @WSL_research
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    Jul 8, 2022
    Unseen and hidden effects of pesticides: pesticide suppress natural soil fertilizers. Our new study in @NaturePortfolio demonstrates that pesticides suppress the natural nutrient uptake capacity of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi with 42%. nature.com/articles/s4155…
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    Apr 1, 2023
    Mycorrhizas drive the evolution of plant adaptation to drought. This interesting paper by Cosme implies that the evolution of drought tolerance occurrs at faster rates in plants that associate with ecto- or ericoid mycorrhizas.
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    Mycorrhizas drive the evolution of plant adaptation to drought
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    Feb 4, 2021
    Our new study demonstrates that pesticides are widespread and persistent in agricultural soils. We detected pesticides in all 100 investigated fields, including 40 organic farms. After 20 years of organic management, we found up to 16 different #pesticides pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
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    Nov 8, 2022
    Very intesting article in the New York Times on mycorrhizal networks of power and influence: nytimes.com/2022/11/07/sci… Opposing pieces of evidence and there is still much to discover. See the exchange of warning signals through these underground networks: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
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    Nov 29, 2023
    Successful microbiome engineering in agricultural fields. Our new paper in @NatureMicrobiol demonstrates that large-scale inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi works and can promote crop yield up to 40%. nature.com/articles/s4156… @SteffiLutz; @NBodenhausen; @KSchlaeppi
    Growth response of maize to field inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. We inoculated 54 fields in Switzerland (a total of 800 plots). Growth responses varied from highly beneficial (+40% on the field at the left) to -12% at the field in the right of the graph).
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    Jun 20, 2023
    Symbiosis rules the world! Almost all plants form associations with microbes. But what about insects? This very nice article demonstrates how widespread symbiotic associations between insects and microbes are (over 402 insect families were studied).
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    Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects
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    Jan 23, 2023
    Increasing evidence indicates that soil microbiomes and soil health contribute to environmental health and even human #health. But there is still much to discover! See our review "Soil Microbiomes and One Health" in the January issue: nature.com/articles/s4157… @sbanerjee2018
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    Soil microbiomes and one health
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    Mar 23, 2021
    Soil biodiversity as a driver and insurance for ecosystem stability: our new paper in eLife is out demonstrating that #microbial #diversity and asynchrony in microbial communities promotes #ecosystem multifunctional #stability. @WaggCameron elifesciences.org/articles/62813
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    Oct 9, 2022
    The international mycorrhiza society has a new twitter account: @mycorrhiza_ims. Many thanks @silvafloresdra for organising this! Mycorrhizas are key for plant growth and we need them to keep our planet sustainable and alive! Soon the new IMS newsletter👍