Spores inoculating roots sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. Yet a healthy soil contains multitudes of fungal spores that establish relationships with the root systems of plants.

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 ...

MANY investigators have demonstrated the importance of ectotrophic mycorrhizae in the growth of trees. The role of these structures is physiological: mycorrhizae increase the absorbing surface area of ...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum and Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (SLCU) have identified a new ...

Functional morphological patterns in root apices of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) dependent on growth, ageing and infection by the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus Glomus mosseae and/or by the ...

Beneath our feet, an unseen kingdom is constantly at work. Fungi break down wood, leaves and mulch into nutrients that plants ...

Researchers have discovered that certain leaf metabolites can be used as markers for mycorrhizal associations. Mycorrhizal fungi facilitate the plants' nutrient uptake and help them thrive under ...

The ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi associated with Pinus thunbergii seedlings grown on sand dune were identified by molecular method, and the diversity of bacteria associated with ECM and Extraradical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. In a study published at the end of 2018, scientists used vast amounts of ...