#mycorrhizalfungi — Public Fediverse posts

📰 Study Shows How Imbalanced Fertilizer Use Can Halve Critical Fungi

🥼 A 70‑year field study shows how imbalanced fertilizer use can halve mycorrhizal fungi, the very partners that help crops access nutrients and withstand stress.

🍄🌾When potassium is low and nitrogen is high, plants lose about half of their fungal allies, weakening long‑term soil health even if yields look fine in the short term.

🤝 This is more evidence of the problems with fertilizer use and supports sustainable agriculture where soil fertility can make farms more resilient to drought, pests, and nutrient volatility.

🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-03-year-field-fertilizer-imbalance-halve.html

#FungiFriday #SustainableAgriculture #Sustainability #MycorrhizalFungi

Anton Petrov: *Mindblowing Map of Fungi Reveals the Largest Structure on Earth*

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jw8jplx7b-w

#fungi #mycology #mycorrhizal #mycorrhizalFungi #science #biology

This is really beautiful, interesting and important at the same time.

SPUN: *A hidden infrastructure*

➡️ Underground networks

"Beneath our feet lie networks of invisible ecosystem engineers: arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi.

These fungi form trading relationships with more than 70% of plant species, building networks of tubular cells called hyphae that extend the surface area of root systems up to a hundred-fold.

Collectively, these networks comprise one of Earth's circulatory systems." ➡️

📖 https://a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/story/a-hidden-infrastructure

🌐 https://a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/story/mycorrhizal-infrastructure-map

#biology #mycorrhizal #mycorrhizalFungi #fungi #SPUN #VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam #VUamsterdam #science #cartography

‘Real-life Project Hail Mary’: Scientists discover a hidden fungal network beneath Earth stretching 110 quadrillion kilometres |

Beneath forests, grasslands and even the soil in our gardens lies an extraordinary hidden world that most people…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #AndyWeir #astrophage #Earth #insideearth #mycorrhizalfungi #projecthail #societyfortheprotectionofundergroundnetworks #Sun
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/702329/

Croatia’s stunning Plitvice Lakes: The UNESCO wonder where waterfalls, bears and venomous snakes coexist | World News

Tucked into the Dinaric Alps of central Croatia, roughly halfway between Zagreb and the Adriatic coast, a chain…
#Croatia #HR #Europe #Europa #EU #croatia #dinaric #hrvatska #mycorrhizalfungi #plitvice #Unesco #UNESCOWorldHeritage #vijesti
https://www.europesays.com/3052842/

https://www.europesays.com/3052842/ Croatia’s stunning Plitvice Lakes: The UNESCO wonder where waterfalls, bears and venomous snakes coexist | World News #croatia #dinaric #hrvatska #MycorrhizalFungi #plitvice #Unesco #UNESCOWorldHeritage #vijesti

Why Mycorrhizal Fungi Are the Secret Weapon of High-Yield Gardeners https://www.allforgardening.com/1801773/why-mycorrhizal-fungi-are-the-secret-weapon-of-high-yield-gardeners/ #ArbuscularMycorrhizalFungi #garden #gardening #ImageCredits #MycorrhizalFungi #PlantRoots #SoilHealth #SymbioticRelationship

Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

https://pacifichorticulture.org/articles/mycorrhizal-fungi-natures-key-to-plant-survival-and-success/

#HackerNews #MycorrhizalFungi #PlantSurvival #NatureScience #Ecology #Fungi

#Fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants https://phys.org/news/2025-07-fungus-fungi-bridges-neighboring.html paper by Beatrice Bock et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08432-x

"Most studies on such interactions focus on #MycorrhizalFungi, famous for nutrient-sharing pathways... new experiment suggests an often-overlooked fungal group—dark septate #endophytes—may be capable of something similar: linking the roots of neighboring plants. DSEs may be responsible for keeping plant networks alive in #drought-prone areas"

New publication: Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected. #biodiversity #conservationbiology #mycorrhizalfungi
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09277-4

Most plant-friendly fungi are a mystery to scientists
#Fungi #MycorrhizalFungi #SoilHealth #Biodiversity #UndergroundEcology #ForestEcosystems #DarkTaxa #CarbonSequestration #Deforestation #Mushrooms #Ecology #SustainableForestry #SoilFungi #Trees
https://the-14.com/most-plant-friendly-fungi-are-a-mystery-to-scientists/

Dartmouth College: Dartmouth Team Launches Public Database on Soil Fungi. “In a new study published in Scientific Data, Dartmouth researchers present a comprehensive database that catalogues the spore traits of 344 mycorrhizal fungi species. By consolidating existing but neglected knowledge of mycorrhizal traits, the database will help scientists study how fungi—and the plants they […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/20/dartmouth-college-dartmouth-team-launches-public-database-on-soil-fungi/

Filled the holes the supports left with a mixture of compost, bulbs, and mycorrhizal fungus. Then the cardboard went over the whole area. Weighed down by the old wooden supports and a couple of my own plant pots. Will have a look underneath in a month or so.
#gardening #plants #bulbs #MycorrhizalFungi

Are #plants and #fungi trading carbon for nutrients? Not likely, say researchers https://phys.org/news/2024-10-fungi-carbon-nutrients.html

What determines transfer of carbon from plants to #MycorrhizalFungi? By Rebecca Bunn et al. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20145

"Misapplying economic models hampers understanding of #mycorrhizas... This economic analogy may have closed our eyes to other possibilities... how much carbon is transferred to a #fungus is independent of nutrient delivery to the plant"

Happy #FungiFriday 🍄‍🟫 #菌曜日
#おはよう 御座います

#MycorrhizalFungi, which support plant roots, are expected to contribute to reforestation and desertification prevention.🌲🍄

The mycorrhizal fungi can enhance the water-holding capacity of the soil, and if trees are planted in such soil, the trees can absorb CO2, helping to mitigate global warming. I really hope this can be realized!

　
植物の根を支える #菌根 は緑化や砂漠化防止に期待されています🌲🍄

菌根菌が土壌の保水力を高め、そこに植林できれば樹木がCO2を吸収し、地球温暖化の抑制にも繋がります、ぜひ実現して欲しいです
#aiart #wrtn #Claude3

#ClimateChange is moving #tree populations away from the #soil #fungi that sustain them https://phys.org/news/2024-05-climate-tree-populations-soil-fungi.html

#Climate mismatches with ecto-#mycorrhizalFungi contribute to migration lag in North American tree range shifts https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2308811121

"#EctomycorrhizalFungi have a different relationship to #climate than their #trees do... We are finding evidence that the trees have to answer for these differences... The trees most at risk of this climate mismatch are those in the pine family"

Researchers reveal how #mycorrhizal species regulate plant-soil #carbon in forests
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-reveal-mycorrhizal-species-plant-soil-carbon.html

Mycorrhizal type regulates trade-offs between #plant and #soil carbon in #forests https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01864-5

"Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (ECM) #fungi are the most common types of #MycorrhizalFungi. The type of plant-mycorrhizal association is critical for #forest carbon cycling by influencing plant growth, nutrient acquisition, and soil #CarbonStorage."

One kind of underground fungi absorb up to a third of our fossil fuel emissions. But don't get your hopes up, as another more populous type release far more carbon in decomposition.

#MycorrhizalFungi #SaprotrophicFungi #CarbonEmissions

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2376827-underground-fungi-absorb-up-to-a-third-of-our-fossil-fuel-emissions/

#plants #ecology #fungi #carbon_cycle