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

In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...

Mycorrhizae (from the Greek words for fungus and root) is a general term describing a symbiotic relationship between a soil fungus and plant root. Unlike rhizobia and their legume partners ...

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

Plants can communicate via a vast underground fungal network connecting their roots, known as the mycorrhizal network — sometimes referred to as the "wood wide web." Between 80% and 90% of all plant ...

A “mycology thriller” imagines a hidden healing mushroom. In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.

Arbuscular mycorrhiza is the most common form of symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant. The fungal hyphae penetrate plant cells and develop branching ...

More than 90% of all land plants live in a close symbiosis with fungi, the mycorrhiza. For a long time, mycorrhiza was ...

Caption Under the microscope, these beech tree roots (Fagus grandifolia) are full of root tips colonized by a couple different types of mycorrhizal fungi. Researchers at the Holden Arboretum ...

Land plants can be connected to a complex, underground fungal network known popularly as 'the wood wide web." Networks emerge because mycorrhizal fungi form symbiotic partnerships with plant roots ...