How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi ...

A new study suggests that plants deceive their neighbors using fungi, faking warning signals in order to compete.

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Every year, plants move 3.58 gigatons of carbon to mycorrhizal fungi, their underground partners—enough, in fact, that if it were ice, it would cover 112 million NHL hockey rinks. However, a ...

University of Cambridge. (2021, July 23). Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 19, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 07 ...

Researchers have demonstrated that unique fungi strengthen the 'immune systems' of wheat and bean plants against aphids. Fungi enter and influence the amount of a plant's own defenses, resulting ...

Plants take carbon dioxide from the air and use it to make sugars and fats. These are sent down to their roots, where they are taken up by so-called mycorrhizal fungi.In exchange, the fungi ...

The fungi also have an effect on insects that attack the root systems of plants. And, in combination with other environmentally-friendly cultivation methods, could help to reduce insecticide use ...