Just as the human body contains a multitude of symbiotic microbial companions, most plant species also live alongside ...

A recent study estimates that more than 13 billion metric tons of CO2 from terrestrial plants are passed on to mycorrhizal fungi each year, equivalent to about 36% of global fossil fuel emissions. The ...

Benjamin Cole, senior author of the Nature Plants paper describing one of the first cross-kingdom spatially-resolved transcriptomics studies to date. For millions of years, underground fungi have ...

Sweet herbal scents of spring waft through the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center as Elena Leander digs into a research plot, seeking to understand the unsung heroes of Texas’s iconic annual blooms.

Scientists made the first detailed global maps of mycorrhizal fungal networks by analyzing DNA from 25,000 soil samples worldwide, showing where these fungi that partner with most plants are most ...

A researcher from Cameroon is looking at how fungus could be used as fertilizer to improve plant production for farmers. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) supply water, phosphate and nitrogen to the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Because soil microbial communities are often altered by anthropogenic disturbance, successful plant community restoration may require the ...

The relationships between plants and the fungi that colonise their roots are responsible for locking away a huge amount of carbon underground – maybe equivalent to more than one-third of global ...