If plants can pick fungi to help fight pests and diseases, it opens a door to greener farming and ecosystem recovery
- Written by Adam Frew, Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
Just beneath your feet, an ancient and silent alliance endures. This alliance between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is one of the oldest biological partnerships on Earth.
Going back almost half-a-billion years, this relationship paved the way for plants to make it onto land. These early plants, simple and without the...