Another group is called Ectomycorrhizae, making up approximately 10% of the plants. This encompasses the woody species such ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

Lahrach and his colleagues found that all three species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increased the growth of the experimental plants (the leek Allium porrum), as measured by shoot and root ...

Many mycorrhizal fungi secrete antibiotics fatal to bacteria that infect root systems. Not surprisingly, those chemicals have generated close interest among researchers, too.

Mycorrhizal fungi growing with a plant root. Image courtesy of Yoshihiro Kobae. (CC BY-SA). Mycorrhizal fungi use carbon to build far-reaching networks of fine filaments known as hyphae.

Medicago truncatula root colonized with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus, Diversispora epigaea. D. epigaea hyphae and arbuscules within the root and also hyphae around the root are visible as ...

First, its Rootella L, Rootella X and Rootella Forte mycorrhizal inoculants contribute to increased soil health with extending root systems, improving nutrient uptake and building crop resiliency.

Additionally, the researchers noted that there hasn’t been a single peer-reviewed study demonstrating that trees share defense signals via common mycorrhizal networks in an actual forest setting.

Scientists call these mycorrhizal networks. The fine, hairlike root tips of trees join together with microscopic fungal filaments to form the basic links of the network, which appears to operate ...