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The underground handshake where fungus and root agreed to never go hungry alone.
means A symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a plant, in which the two trade nutrients to mutual benefit.
from Coined in the late 19th century by the German botanist Albert Bernhard Frank, who stitched together two Greek roots: 'mykes,' fungus, and 'rhiza,' root. Literally 'fungus-root' — a tidy name for the buried partnership he'd noticed between forest trees and the threads weaving through their roots. 'Rhiza' is the same root that gives us 'rhizome' and 'licorice' (literally 'sweet root').
- trade deal
- Fungi swap minerals for plant sugars, daily
- wood wide web
- Trees text each other through fungal threads
- ancient pact
- Helped plants conquer land 400 million years ago
- most plants
- Over 90% of species depend on it
- hidden scale
- One teaspoon of soil holds miles of hyphae
for instance
truffle symbiosis — tuber melanosporum fungi form mycorrhizal relationships with oak and hazelnut trees in périgord, france