#mycorrhizae — Public Fediverse posts

Do CT home gardens need this product you can’t pronounce? https://www.allforgardening.com/1923009/do-ct-home-gardens-need-this-product-you-cant-pronounce/ #advice #BetterYields #ct #CTNews #fertilizer #fungi #garden #gardening #gardens #HartfordCourant #HealthierPlants #ImprovedDroughtTolerance #landscapes #Lawns #MaxImagePreview #mycorrhizae #MycorrhizalInoculants #science #StrongerRoots #UConn #UconnGardenCenter

Fungal highways are vast, yet hidden underground – new study
#Environment #Science #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Fungi #Mycorrhizae #SoilHealth #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #Ecosystems #Conservation #Nature #Earth #Biology #Soils #CarbonStorage #Grasslands
https://the-14.com/fungal-highways-are-vast-yet-hidden-underground-new-study/

The saprotrophic-symbiotic continuum in fungi
and the loss of rare microbiota through agricultural intensification

Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi. Francis Martin, Hao Tan, Current Biology : 2025 >>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000624

Banerjee, S., Dasgupta, D. & van der Heijden, M.G.A. Agricultural intensification, microbial homogenization and loss of rare microbiota. Nat Rev Microbiol (2026)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-026-01315-w >>
#soil #agriculture #microbiota #microbes #mycorrhizae #mutualism #symbiosis #saprotrophy #ecology #taxonomy #EcologicalSpectrum #organisms #LeafLitter #PlantMicrobeInteractions #MicrobialEcology

Image: #Fungi, Bellingen, NSW

Here are some different recipes for #PeatFree #PottingSoil blends -- depending on what one needs it for (#SeedStarting, #RaisedBeds, #PottedPlants, etc). The recipes also call for the use of #mycorrhizae to simulate root production. My cannabis farmer friends use that in their soil blends!

How to Make Peat-Free #PottingMix

Easy #DIY Potting Mixes for Potted Plants and Mo

"Going peat-free is one of the most impactful things we can do as gardeners to be better stewards of the earth and our resources. The lack of peat-free potting mixes at the garden center can be discouraging, but I see it as an opportunity to make my own which, frankly, has yielded far better results over the last few years. With a few basic components kept at hand, you can make great mixes for your plants, too!"

Learn more:
https://wildrevivalgardening.com/peatfree-gardening-guide/peatfree-potting-mix-recipes

#Gardening #SeedStartingMix #SeedStarting #SolarPunkSunday #PeatFreeStartingMix

Teaming with Fungi by Jeff Lowenfels, 2013

The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhize

Teaming with Fungi is an important guide to #mycorrhizae and the role they play in agriculture, horticulture, and hydroponics. Almost every plant in a garden forms a relationship with fungi, and many plants would not exist without their fungal partners.

#books
#fungi
#gardening

A billion years ago, there were no plants on land. Plants managed to expand from the oceans by trading with fungi and microbes, who could break rocks down into nutrients they needed.

This led to a 90% reduction in CO2 levels. We owe our atmosphere, we owe our forests, we owe our grasslands to this partnership.

Mycorrhizae are still responsible for drawing down so much CO2 each year — the equivalent of ⅓ the emissions from fossil fuels.

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/08/26/g-s1-85185/plants-fungi-resources-trade-cooperation

#Fungi #Microbes #Nature #Science #CO2 #Climate #ClimateDiary #Mycorrhizae

#Orchid's #nutrient theft from f#ungi sheds light on #photosynthesis-#parasitism continuum.

#kleptophagy #kleptoparasitism #mycoheterotrophy #mycorrhizae

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-orchid-nutrient-theft-fungi-photosynthesis.html

#IndianGhostPipe - #MonotropaUniflora

Herbaceous, #perennial flowering plant.

It can't generate its own chlorophyll & is #parasitic - specifically #mycoheterotroph. Its #symbiotic #fungi hosts are in the #Russulaceae family.

Through the fungal web of #mycorrhizae, #GhostPipe roots sap food from where the host fungi are connected to the #photosynthetic #trees. Clustered node roots of this plant are covered in hairs called #cystidium. The #cystidia found on these roots allow easy attachment to #FungiHyphae. As it's not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in very dark environments, like understories of forests.

#Indigenous #Cherokee peoples feature the "pipe plant" in some of their #CreationStories. The legend states that the plant was named "Indian pipe" due to a group of chiefs quarreling without resolution, while passing a pipe around during the dispute; the Great Spirit then turned the chiefs into the plant, as they should have smoked the sacred pipe after making peace with each other. The plant is said to grow wherever friends have quarreled.

Native to #PacificNorthwest & a few other areas too.

#NotAFungi #PlantIdentification #PlantLovers #ParasiticPlants #InterestingPlants #Wsanec #Saanich #PNW #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #cascadia #LearnAboutPlants #Bloomscrolling #StrangeFlowers #ForestPlants #YYJ #Nature #WildPlants #NativePlants

#Mycoheterotrophic #plants as a key to the '#Wood Wide Web'.

#mycorrhizae #soil #microbiome #rhizosphere

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mycoheterotrophic-key-wood-wide-web.html

#Soil #fungi may help explain the global gradient in #forest #diversity.

#microbiome #mycorrhizae #rhizosphere

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-soil-fungi-global-gradient-forest.html

"The true story, as always, is complex and ever evolving. And there’s an interesting subtext here: This conversation has thus far been dominated by forest ecologists focused on the aboveground world of trees, who tend to see fungi as passive inter-arboreal conduits rather than coequal ecological players with their own interests and behaviors. Now the mycologists are speaking up, and putting fungi on the map."
#Ecosystems #Ecology #Science #Mycorrhizae
https://gabepopkin.substack.com/p/the-wood-wide-web-a-story-too-good?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

Mycorrhizae and Land Plants – An Update

by Roberto
I am fortunate that among the first impressions of my day, I take in this view of land plants. Given my proclivity for microbiology my mind inevitably wonders to what I cannot see, the underground network of filamentous fungi connecting the roots of those plants, the mycorrhizae.

Read more → https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/05/mycorrhiza-and-land-plants-an-update.html

#microbiology #mycorrhizae

Mycorrhizae and Land Plants – An Update

by Roberto
I am fortunate that among the first impressions of my day, I take in this view of land plants. Given my proclivity for microbiology my mind inevitably wonders to what I cannot see, the underground network of filamentous fungi connecting the roots of those plants, the mycorrhizae.

Read more → https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/05/mycorrhiza-and-land-plants-an-update.html

#microbiology #mycorrhizae

🌲💬🌲 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/mycorrhizae-how-trees-talk-underground-video

"To get a better picture of these #forest relationships, a team of researchers used DNA analysis to map a #fungal network in a patch of #Canadianforest. Remarkably, they found that one #tree was connected to 47 other #trees. Their models also showed that when hub trees were removed, it would cause more connections to be lost than if trees were simply removed randomly."

#video #ecology #ecosystem #fungi #science #biology #nature #mycelium #mycorrhizae #symbiosis

@DaveWhittle @DiverDoc Thanks for that link. I'm looking at the original paper now.

It's such a seductive idea that trees talk to each other across their shared mycorrhizal network, and share resources with their seedlings. I'm not surprised that it's a hard thing to test properly in forests.

It sounds like there's still a long way to go before we know for sure if this is really happening, and, if it is, how widespread it and nuanced it is.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-01986-1
#fungi #trees #mycorrhizae

Well i guess this is really happening… looking forward to reconnecting with community of #PlantEcology, #PlantEvolution, and #Conservation folks on this new platform. Already seeing some familiar faces!
I am a plant ecologist based at #SmithCollege focused on questions around plant conservation and #ClimateChange, with some developing projects exploring #CarnivorousPlants as well as #mycorrhizae. My lab involves mostly undergraduates #PUI and often collaborates w/ #SmithCollegeBotanicGarden.

How trees secretly talk to each other in the #forest

What do trees talk about?
In the Douglas fir forests of Canada, see how #trees “talk” to each other by forming underground #symbiotic #relationships—called #mycorrhizae—with #fungi to relay stress signals and #share #resources with one another.

https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/decoder/00000165-61d1-d3b2-a17d-e9f9571f0000

#Biology #Biodiversity #Mycorrhiza