When the 'wood-wide web' was first described in the journal Nature in 1997, our view of plant life took on a utopian glean.

Researchers at the Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) at the University of Bayreuth have found ...

If you add beneficial fungus and bacteria, you may not need to have the worms. Something like H-Start or EPSI would be a good ...

Networks emerge because mycorrhizal fungi form symbiotic partnerships with plant roots, through which the plants receive nutrients and the fungi receive carbon. It has been demonstrated that plant ...

Unlike rhizobia and their legume partners, mycorrhizal associations are ubiquitous and relatively nonselective, occurring in ~80% of angiosperms and in all gymnosperms (Wilcox, 1991). The ability ...

It is more likely plants use their communication networks to "eavesdrop" on their neighbours than alert them to dangers, an Oxford ...