THE FUNGUS THAT POWERS AGRICULTURE
Jun 25, 2021
2 minutes
rbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are the most important mycorrhizae in agricultural ecosystems, since they colonise the majority of crop plants. AM fungi must associate with plant roots to survive, and it is this association that begins a mutually beneficial relationship between the fungi and the plant. In return for sugars from a plant, the long, threadlike structures of fungi act as
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