Watch nutrients flow through an underground circulatory system that connects fungi and plants. A new study shows how these ...

Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The ...

The fungi can’t survive without carbon, and the plants produce plenty of carbon through photosynthesis. The plants need water ...

These are called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The paper in New Phytologist ... the microbiome is coming of age,” Hofmockel said, referring to microscopic life in the ground.

Industrial farming practices often deplete the soil of important nutrients and minerals, leaving farmers to rely on ...

In this mutually beneficial relationship, soil-borne arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi supply plants with water and phosphorus, which the plants accept in exchange for carbon molecules. These exchanges ...