Comment on arborholing

• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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