“No organism lives in isolation,” explains Natural History Museum scientist Dr Silvia Pressel. The associations between plants and certain soil fungi, called mycorrhizal fungi, remain crucial. They’re ...
Fungal networks play a leading role in plant and forest health and could be key to sustainably supporting ecosystems and agriculture in the face of climate change.
These are called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The paper in New Phytologist concluded with a plea for improving the industry. It said the U.S. “fully lacks regulations” on the quality of ...
Forestry England, responsible for managing England’s publicly owned forests, has transplanted mycorrhizal fungi from ancient woodland to a newly planted site in North Yorkshire, in the hope that ...