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TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I thought it was fungi, as they are the ones breaking both plants and us down, are the oldest of all of us, both feed plants and us, etc.

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MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I thought fungi was relatively new - which is why we have coal?

I am very happy to be corrected

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- floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Fungi are older than literal roots. The first land plants relied on them for nutrient exchange before evolving a radical system. My mind was blown away during a presentation by Dr. Toby Kiers about the latest research on mycorrhizal networks. They directly imaged nutrients moving both ways through those narrow filaments, through unknown mechanisms. www.spun.earth/networks/mycorrhizal-fungi
  
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  - Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Radiolab Episode from Tree to Shining Tree (air date 7/30/2016) is a really fun episode about mushroom networks.
    
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- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Fungi are much older. Source
  
  Plants are older than thought: 500 million years old. Source
  
  The earliest fungi started to develop 1.5 billion years ago, with other types 635 to 400 million years ago. Source
  
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