We are all connected. If not for fungus, we wouldn’t have the life systems that surround us. A symbiotic relationship between plants and fungus was what made it possible for plant live to develop on land.
The greatest part of this read (you’ll have to wade through a lot of biology jargon) is the bit about the fungus that actually hunts (well, lures and preys upon) an insect-like creature for its nitrogen. The “hunting” can count for upwards of 25% of its nitrogen uptake.
Wow. Life is such an amazing thing.
A mycorrhiza (Greek for fungus roots coined by Frank, 1885[1]; typically seen in the plural forms mycorrhizae or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic (occasionally weakly pathogenic) association between a fungus and the roots of a plant.[2] In a mycorrhizal association the fungus may colonize the roots of a host plant either intracellularly or extracellularly. It is an important part of soil life.
read more via Mycorrhiza – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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