"It could be beneficial for fungi to monitor their plant partners, to detect when one plant has been attacked, and then warn the other plants to prepare themselves," he added in an email to Live ...

Perhaps the fungi are listening in on their plant partners, detecting when one has been attacked, and warning the others to prepare themselves." Co-author Professor Toby Kiers (Vrije Universiteit ...

In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...

The story begins under our feet: soils are not only a complex habitat, but also a battlefield where tiny nematodes fight against fungi and plant roots. Agriculture in particular suffers as a result.

More than 90% of all land plants live in a close symbiosis with fungi, the mycorrhiza. For a long time, mycorrhiza was ...

“Fungi are far more mysterious than plants,” says Robert Beelman, director of the Penn State Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health. He led a recent study showing that two common ...

The researchers have published their findings in the journal Functional Ecology. Networks of fungi and plants—so-called mycorrhizal networks, also known as the Wood Wide Web—are highly complex ...

Do you have a sweet tooth? If so, thank a plant! Plants have the superhero-like ability of turning an invisible gas that is in the air all around us – carbon dioxide – into something ...

Illustration of the symbiotic association between plant and fungi in a mycorrhizal network. (Image credit: Andrea Danti / Alamy Stock Photo) Plants can communicate via a vast underground fungal ...