Month: September 2022

LIFE BELOW. "Ninety percent of all organisms on the seven continents live underground. In addition to bacteria and fungi, the soil is also filled with protozoa, nematodes, mites, and microarthropods." https://lnkd.in/eyzuPzu View in LinkedIn

DIVERSITY. "There can be 10,000 to 50,000 species in less than a teaspoon of soil. In that same teaspoon of soil there are more microbes than there are people on earth. In a handful of healthy soil, there is more biodiversity in just the bacterial community than you will find in all the animals of the Amazon basin." https://lnkd.in/eyzuPzu View in LinkedIn

NINE PERCENT. "Our knowledge of fungi is far exceeded by our ignorance. To date, we’ve identified approximately 14,000 of the 150,000 species of mushroom-forming fungi estimated to exist, which means that more than 90 percent have not yet been identified." And that is the blind man simply counting noses. https://lnkd.in/eZ8w9KH View in LinkedIn

A LOVELY VIDEO of the relationship between plant roots and soil fungi. https://lnkd.in/eAq5Die View in LinkedIn

NEW VIEW. "More and more, symbiosis appears to be the ‘rule,’ not the exception." https://lnkd.in/ejR8YC4 View in LinkedIn

GIANT HYBRID CITIES. "Quick, which is the biggest symbiotic association on Earth? Did you guess the mycorrhizae? They are the huge symbioses between fungi and the roots of most terrestrial plants....the mass of mycorrhizal fungi on the planet is estimated to be somewhere around 1-3 x 10(10) tons (that’s between 1.4 and 4 tons per person)." https://lnkd.in/e4xrzsX View in LinkedIn

SYMBIOSIS RULES. "80 and 92% of surveyed land plant species and families are mycorrhizal." https://lnkd.in/euyjyGV View in LinkedIn

MYCORRHIZAL SYMBIOSIS. "Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbioses can be formed with a very wide range of plant species, as many as 250,000. Only 150–200 species of AM fungi have so far been distinguished on the basis of morphology, but DNA-based studies suggest the true diversity of these symbionts may be very much higher." https://lnkd.in/eYJPZfp View in LinkedIn

"PLANT AND FUNGI ROOT SYMBIOSIS is an ancient and important partnership where both entities benefit from collaboration, especially relating to nitrogen fixation. Defense volatile molecules of plants have been significantly modified to permit this cross-species relationship, with cases where Jasmonic acid is actually additionally made in roots by the fungus itself." https://lnkd.in/edPEBi9 View in LinkedIn

FUNGAL ORGANIZERS. "Mycorrhizal networks are fundamental agents of complex adaptive systems (ecosystems) because they provide avenues for feedbacks and cross-scale interactions that lead to self-organization and emergent properties in ecosystems." https://lnkd.in/eF-_4rc View in LinkedIn