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"THE MOTHER TREES can distinguish their kin from stranger seedlings, shuttling more microelements and supporting vaster mycorrhizal networks to close relatives, thus providing a competitive edge for kin seedlings." https://lnkd.in/eSDUTZE View in LinkedIn

"ALLELOPATHY, a phenomenon where compounds produced by one plant limit the growth of surrounding plants, is a controversially discussed factor in plant-plant interactions with great significance for plant community structure." https://lnkd.in/eNjC4Wx View in LinkedIn

"RECOGNITION OF KIN is also evident between established and regenerating trees linked in a mycorrhizal network, leading us to consider hub trees as "mother trees."" https://lnkd.in/eSDUTZE View in LinkedIn

CHEMICAL SUPERHIGHWAY. "Gentle marigolds, beloved by gardeners, inhibit the growth of neighboring plants by producing some phytotoxic thiophenes that are then delivered to their neighbors by through the mycorrhizae." https://lnkd.in/e4xrzsX View in LinkedIn

CROSS-SPECIES LINKS. "In the great Douglas-fir forests of North America, for example, we have found that regenerating Douglas-fir seedlings link into the mycorrhizal network of older trees, whether of the same or different species, allowing them to acquire sufficient resources to become successfully established." https://lnkd.in/eSDUTZE View in LinkedIn

ROOT CHATTER. "Infested lima bean roots in distilled water gave off a signal molecule in the water that made uninfested lima plants more attractive to mites when their roots were exposed to the experimental water. These data indicate that herbivore-infested plants may interact with undamaged neighbouring plants through chemical information that is exchanged in the soil." https://lnkd.in/ebKuDZb View in LinkedIn

LIVING BIOPESTICIDES. "The role of mycorrhizal fungi in mediating multitrophic interactions in agricultural ecosystems has largely been overlooked, but our findings suggest that there may be potential to develop fungal treatments to enhance crop protection." https://lnkd.in/eVcfufn View in LinkedIn

GENE MINGLING. "Our work suggests that genetic exchange may occur through intermingling of nuclei during anastomosis formation and opens the way to studies of vegetative compatibility in natural populations of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi." https://lnkd.in/eReY3xe View in LinkedIn

INTIMATE BRIDGES. "Bridges between plants formed by AM fungi can be established both by hyphal growth from one plant to another and by anastomosis where two hyphae of the same isolate fuse together and exchange nuclei." https://lnkd.in/eVcfufn View in LinkedIn

ROOT ALARM SYSTEM. "We present the first experimental evidence that herbivore-induced signalling molecules can be transferred from plants infested with aphids to uninfested neighbours via a common mycelial network." https://lnkd.in/eVcfufn View in LinkedIn