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Overview

Martin I. Bidartondo is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. The primary focus of their research lies within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant body of work spanning 63 publications.

The scientist's subfields of study include:

  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science
  • Cell Biology
  • Pharmacology

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Martin I. Bidartondo are:

  • Laura M. Suz
  • Silvia Pressel
  • Katie J. Field
  • Jeffrey G. Duckett
  • Jill Kowal

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • "Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe" (2022, The ISME Journal)
  • "State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2020" (2020, Ghent University Academic Bibliography)
  • "The distribution and evolution of fungal symbioses in ancient lineages of land plants" (2020, Mycorrhiza)
  • "Ectomycorrhizas and tipping points in forest ecosystems" (2021, New Phytologist)
  • "Direct nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon exchanges between Mucoromycotina 'fine root endophyte' fungi and a flowering plant in novel monoxenic cultures" (2022, New Phytologist)

Martin I. Bidartondo has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Mycorrhiza
  • Fungal ecology
  • The ISME Journal

Best Publications

  • Changing partners in the dark: isotopic and molecular evidence of ectomycorrhizal liaisons between forest orchids and trees.

    Martin I. Bidartondo;Bastian Burghardt;Gerhard Gebauer;Thomas D. Bruns

  • Finding needles in haystacks: Linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Barbara Robbertse;Vincent Robert;Duong Vu

  • Environment and host as large-scale controls of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Sietse van der Linde;Sietse van der Linde;Laura M. Suz;C. David L. Orme;Filipa Cox

  • The evolutionary ecology of myco-heterotrophy.

    Martin I. Bidartondo

  • Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    Martin I. Bidartondo;Dirk Redecker;Isabelle Hijri;Andres Wiemken

  • Host Specificity in Ectomycorrhizal Communities: What Do the Exceptions Tell Us?

    Thomas D. Bruns;Martin I. Bidartondo;D. Lee Taylor

  • Fungal specificity bottlenecks during orchid germination and development.

    Martin I. Bidartondo;David J. Read

  • The dawn of symbiosis between plants and fungi

    Martin I. Bidartondo;Martin I. Bidartondo;David J. Read;James M. Trappe;James M. Trappe;Vincent Merckx

  • Nitrogen availability is a primary determinant of conifer mycorrhizas across complex environmental gradients.

    Filipa Cox;Nadia Barsoum;Erik A. Lilleskov;Martin I. Bidartondo;Martin I. Bidartondo

  • Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants

    Claire P. Humphreys;Peter J. Franks;Peter J. Franks;Mark Rees;Martin I. Bidartondo

  • How to know unknown fungi: the role of a herbarium

    Patrick M. Brock;Patrick M. Brock;Patrick M. Brock;Heidi Döring;Martin I. Bidartondo;Martin I. Bidartondo

  • Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe

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  • The Effects of Above- and Belowground Mutualisms on Orchid Speciation and Coexistence

    Richard J. Waterman;Martin I. Bidartondo;Jaco Stofberg;Julie K. Combs

  • Symbiotic options for the conquest of land

    Katie J. Field;Silvia Pressel;Jeffrey G. Duckett;William R. Rimington

  • Atmospheric nitrogen deposition impacts on the structure and function of forest mycorrhizal communities: A review.

    Erik A. Lilleskov;Thomas W. Kuyper;Martin I. Bidartondo;Martin I. Bidartondo;Erik A. Hobbie

  • First evidence of mutualism between ancient plant lineages (Haplomitriopsida liverworts) and Mucoromycotina fungi and its response to simulated Palaeozoic changes in atmospheric CO2

    Katie J. Field;William R. Rimington;William R. Rimington;William R. Rimington;Martin I. Bidartondo;Martin I. Bidartondo;Kate E. Allinson

  • Extreme specificity in epiparasitic Monotropoideae (Ericaceae): widespread phylogenetic and geographical structure

    M. I. Bidartondo;T. D. Bruns

  • Fine-level mycorrhizal specificity in the Monotropoideae (Ericaceae): specificity for fungal species groups.

    M. I. Bidartondo;T. D. Bruns

  • Specialized cheating of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis by an epiparasitic liverwort.

    Martin I Bidartondo;Thomas D Bruns;Michael Weiss;Cecília Sérgio

  • Deception above, deception below: linking pollination and mycorrhizal biology of orchids

    Richard J. Waterman;Martin I. Bidartondo;Martin I. Bidartondo

  • Environmental drivers of ectomycorrhizal communities in Europe's temperate oak forests

    Laura M Suz;Laura M Suz;Nadia Barsoum;Sue Benham;Hans Peter Dietrich

  • Do nutrient additions alter carbon sink strength of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    MI Bidartondo;H Ek;Håkan Wallander;Bengt Söderström

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    M. I. Bidartondo;Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvia Pressel
Silvia Pressel Natural History Museum
Jeffrey G. Duckett
Jeffrey G. Duckett Queen Mary University of London
Katie J. Field
Katie J. Field University of Sheffield
Thomas D. Bruns
Thomas D. Bruns University of California, Berkeley
Gerhard Gebauer
Gerhard Gebauer University of Bayreuth
Jonathan R. Leake
Jonathan R. Leake University of Sheffield
David Read
David Read University of Sheffield
Erik A. Lilleskov
Erik A. Lilleskov US Forest Service
Duncan D. Cameron
Duncan D. Cameron University of Sheffield
Pasi Rautio
Pasi Rautio Finnish Forest Research Institute

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