Over time, our industry has come to better appreciate water. Water availability and the cost of water are now regular topics ...

Researchers at the Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) at the University of Bayreuth have found the first indication that young plants of certain tropical tree species ...

Some orchids have evolved a unique parasitic lifestyle, abandoning full reliance on photosynthesis in favor of extracting ...

Today, that symbiotic partnership between plants and fungi is called mycorrhizae. Arbuscular mycorrhizae are a specific type of mycorrhizae where plant root and fungi are intertwined at the ...

“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 ...

Land plants can be connected to a complex, underground fungal network known popularly as 'the wood wide web.' Networks emerge because mycorrhizal fungi form symbiotic partnerships with plant roots ...

mycorrhizae - a term used to describe a symbiotic association between root colonizing fungi and plants (Sylvia et al. 2005) obligate symbionts - organisms which rely on a host organism to provide ...

Researchers found that some orchids abandon photosynthesis and feed on fungi when conditions allow. Instead of relying on ...

Most orchids live in a symbiotic relationship with fungi in their roots: The plants provide sugar they produce through photosynthesis and in return receive water and minerals from the fungi. However, ...

Land plants can be connected to a complex, underground fungal network known popularly as 'the wood wide web." Networks emerge because mycorrhizal fungi form symbiotic partnerships with plant roots ...

When the 'wood-wide web' was first described in the journal Nature in 1997, our view of plant life took on a utopian glean.

Thus, mycorrhizal networks in forests can support carbon transfer between plants, challenging the above-mentioned dogma of ...