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Héctor Montero

@hectormontero.bsky.social
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Biologist endemic to Southern Chile

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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
IN BRIEF: Arbuscules up close: spatiotemporal and single cell translatomics in rice and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (Crispus M Mbaluto) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Partial mycoheterotrophy: a common strategy in arbuscular mycorrhizal plants? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fig. 2 Proposed autotrophy to mycoheterotrophy continuum among mycorrhizal plants, based on Johnson et al. (1997).
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 30/06/2026
What if one organism could copy itself and merge with others, weaving vast living networks? Meet the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi 🦠 Cambridge researcher Dr Jennifer McGaley from @camplantsci has filmed these fungi in action for the very first time. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4ghAynD
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Héctor Montero @hectormontero.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
TRAP-seq and Molecular Cartography on the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis 🪸 doi.org/10.1093/plce...
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Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution
High-resolution tracking of gene activity across cells and over time reveals an exceptionally detailed picture of how plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fun
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Fungal Ecology 🍄 @fungal-ecology.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
What is the global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)? A recent paper in Fungal Ecology by @steffilutz.bsky.social and colleagues provides updated estimates of AMF richness from 4,733 sampling sites across the globe doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
A global map showing sites where AMF data were analyzed for this Fungal Ecology paperA phylogeny showing the distribution of AMF fungi across different biomes.
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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Excited to share that a chapter of my PhD is now out, just two weeks before my defense. Our study shows that agricultural expansion into native forests and grasslands drives strong biodiversity loss in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across the Andes. Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
@invam.bsky.social collection, prairies, and AMF all featured in the awesome article Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing
These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close
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Caroline Gutjahr @carogutj.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Are you interested in using synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis? Then our PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...
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Postdoc (m/f/d) position on synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.
Fig. 2 Phylogenetically distinct structures produced by the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal mycelium.
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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you! Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
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Héctor Montero @hectormontero.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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Carnivorous plants lack genes to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
When friends abandon them, some plants go on a killing spree.
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Héctor Montero @hectormontero.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Learn about loss and retention of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in carnivorous plants in our latest publication in @newphyt.bsky.social ! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Camille Delavaux @camilledelavaux.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Check out our new paper: Origin matters: mycorrhizal growth response and induced resistance to pathogens depend on mycorrhizal and pathogen source, where we show that mycorrhizal induced resistance occurs within native plant species 🌱 @newphyt.bsky.social
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Origin matters: mycorrhizal growth response and induced resistance to pathogens depend on mycorrhizal and pathogen source
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are critical to native plant community ecology and influence plant invasions. Research has focused on nutritional benefits of AMF, although evidence shows that the...
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Héctor Montero @hectormontero.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Great article. The evolution of symbiotic nitrogen fixation is fascinating and complicated 🎢
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One versus many independent assemblies of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in flowering plants - Nature Communications
Symbiosis of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in evolutionarily novel “nodules” of diverse flowering plants including legume crops was assembled from pre-existing functions. Testing hypotheses of single vs. m...
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Vasilis Kokkoris @vkokkoris.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
📢Our synthesis of current knowledge on the fascinating cell of #arbuscular #mycorrhizal fungi is out @currentbiology.bsky.social, part of the special #fungi issue. With @rachaelcargill.bsky.social @tobykiers.bsky.social @thomasshimizu.bsky.social Open access link: www.cell.com/current-biol... 1/4
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Héctor Montero @hectormontero.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Nice to see in their supplemental tables that mycorrhizal genes tend to be present in terrestrial, and absent in aquatic and epiphytic fern species. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls - Nature Plants
New fern transcriptomes reveal repeated whole-genome duplications, unique gene families and distinct lignocellulosic evolution, providing a comprehensive database that underscores the ancient divergen...
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Héctor Montero @hectormontero.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Enigmatic Geosiphon ❤️ doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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The Geosiphon-Nostoc symbiosis: recent elaboration, or remnant of an enduring association?
AbstractBackground and Aims. Fungal associations with photosynthetic microbes have regularly been invoked as precursors to the evolution of land plants and
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