How do mycorrhizal fungi help plants communicate? What are mycorrhizal fungi benefits? Learn about how mycorrhizal fungi help roots absorb nutrients and fight off predators in exchange for nutrients.

If you know anything about mycorrhizal relationships, then you probably are making sure you have them happening in your garden. If you don’t know anything about them, you should. They are in and ...

ORIGINAL:Defunding one of the world’s key living fungi libraries: Research and farming will lose vital living toolsThis family of fungi can function as natural fertilizers, boosting plant growth and ...

Imagine walking through a forest and knowing that beneath your feet lies an invisible internet connecting every tree around ...

We propose that mycorrhizal colonization of roots alters nonhydraulic root to shoot communication of soil drying. Split-root rose (Rosa hybrida L. cv Samantha) plants--one side of the root system ...

Animals help disperse seeds and spores for many plant and fungal species. This typically happens when animals eat the ...

An "ancient relationship" between fungi and plant roots creates a genetic expression that leads to more root growth, scientists say. Common fungus could one day be used as 'bio-fertilizer', replacing ...

In situ observations of a vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae (Nicol. & Gerd.) Gerdemann & Trappe with roots of Brassica cultivars containing low and normal levels of glucosinolates ...

This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...

What is the Rhizosphere and how can understanding rhizosphere processes help feed the world and save the environment? This article will review the critical biogeochemical processes occurring at the ...