How plants control partnerships with fungi: Study finds stress hormones influence symbiosis
Their research could contribute to a new agriculture in which plants and fungi are considered as partners. Right under our ...
Princeton University6d
Research reveals the underground 'traffic' between fungi and plants
An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...
From trading nutrients to storing carbon: 5 things you didn’t know about our underground fungi
Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – ...
The Conversation on MSN14d
Fungi are among the planet’s most important organisms — yet they’re overlooked in conservation strategies
Fungi are difficult to study in both nature and under experimental conditions. This is because of many species’ microscopic ...
The New York Times1mon
How Fungi Move Among Us
In turn, 80 percent of the world’s plants rely on fungal networks to survive and thrive. The two are dependent trade partners. These fungi make uncannily smart choices, even without a brain or ...
EurekAlert!1mon
Scientists build robot to track plant-fungal trade networks, revealing nature’s underground supply chains
To seek further resources, the fungi deployed special growing branches as microscopic ‘pathfinders’ to explore new territory, appearing to favor trade opportunities with future plant partners ...
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)4d
First 1,000 fungi on IUCN Red List reveal growing threats - IUCN Red List
The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, ...
Mycorrhizal fungi: The hidden key to enhancing soil carbon storage in grasslands
Bai Yongfei from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with partners ...
Yen on MSN3d
Hundreds of fungi species threatened with extinction: IUCN
Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on ...
Phys.org24d
How plants control partnerships with fungi: Study finds stress hormones influence symbiosis
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Plants regulate their symbiotic relationships with fungi through stress hormones. Ethylene, a stress hormone, inhibits symbiosis by promoting the accumulation of ...
First 1,000 fungi on IUCN Red List reveal growing threats
The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, ...