Encountered some #fungi during our walk at #Kirroughtree yesterday, and explained to our 7yo about the #mycorrhizal network. Looking for a textbook on the subject, I came across the name Paul Stamets, which, having watched #startrekdiscovery, struck me as just too much of a coincidence. Seems the contemporary expert influenced the whole #sporedrive plotline, and the Lt Cmdr was named after him in tribute! Hence the #MerlinSheldrake book I saw in #wigtown today referencing both!

Remember this photo, that I've sent around a few times? Ghost Pipes (the flowers) of a a plant, not a fungus, that is parasitic on mycorrhizal fungi? (This plant does no photosynthesis. It steals all its food, making it a true parasite.)

Here is a link to pt 1 of a 3 part podcast talking about the symbiotic relationship that mycorrhizal fungi have with trees. There are quite a few details here I didn't know.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-fungi-economy-part-1-just-like-us-trees-are-experiencing-inflation/

#Nature #plants #Fungi #Maine #parasitic #mycorrhizal

More evidence of the importance of #Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.027

And of the urgency in transitioning from high input, high tillage monocropping toward more diversified no/low-till systems incorporating perennial crops

"...study confirms the significant contribution made by #mycorrhizal associations to global #carbon fluxes and should motivate an inclusion of mycorrhizal #fungi both within global #climate and #carboncycle models, and within conservation policy and practice."

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00167-7
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#mycorrhiza and soil ecosystems are importent #CarbonSink.
"...study confirms the significant contribution made by #mycorrhizal associations to global #carbon fluxes and should motivate an inclusion of mycorrhizal #fungi both within global #climate and #carboncycle models, and within conservation policy and practice."

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00167-7

Heidi-Jayne Hawkins, Rachael I.M. Cargill, et all

One exciting thing about this project is its multi-faceted focus on community

Below ground, we're looking at the #SoilFoodWeb and effectiveness of adding either commercially available #mycorrhizal fungi or on-farm cultivated "Indigenous Micro-Organisms" (IMOs) to tree potting mixes and transplant field sites

Above ground, looking at the impact those organisms have on plant health and productivity, as well as the farmer knowledge networks needed to grow & sustain #agroforestry based livelihoods

Ok... this is a long read. It is very meandering but it is starting to encompass many of the things that I walk with when i am walking on the land. It's taken me a few days to tease it out, writing in breaks and pauses. I am trying to build language around something deeply sensory and explain it all at once. I think I will take it down even further, but at least this part is out.

"For the sake of this thought exercise I am going ask you to pretend you are in a perfectly dark room. I don’t mean a nighttime room with starlight, or streetlight coming in. I mean a dark room. Like the kind we used for photography. Or the darkest sealed room in a house – basement with no windows, nothing. There is no light source. But for some reason you know there is another human in the space."

#traditionalknowlege #Indigenous #mycorrhizal #microbiome #landbasedlearning

https://giiwedinanaang.wordpress.com/2023/03/14/ancient-memories-through-our-very-own-skin/

New #mycorrhizal dominance mechanism drives scale-dependent #biodiversity-#ecosystem functioning relationships.

#soil #microbiome #fungi

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-mycorrhizal-dominance-mechanism-scale-dependent-biodiversity-ecosystem.html

In an Oregon white #oak (Quercus garryana) #woodland, more than 40 #fungus spp form #mycorrhizal associations with oaks. Many of the fungi are truffles, fruiting belowground. California voles, deer mice, and harvest mice eat the truffles and disperse spores, potentially playing a role in the reproduction and spread of oak woodlands by inoculating unoccupied soil.

Frank et al. 2008, in: Proceedings of the sixth California oak symposium: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-217.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr217/psw_gtr217_131.pdf

Hot off the (digital) press, a paper detailing how many of us view communal/common #mycorrhizal networks and the issues caused by #popsci writing. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1

#ecology #Evolution #Forests #Soil #CMNs

Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common #Mycorrhizal #Networks in #Forests - popular claims of singular positive effects of common mycorrhizal networks
in forests (e.g. that adult trees support their offspring) are disconnected from evidence; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1

Mycorrhizal Colonization: It's What Your Soil Needs but Probably Isn't Getting

"The vast majority of our soils are deficient in one thing. Not nitrogen, not phosphorus, not calcium, not another element...As a matter of fact, the deficiency is not an element (mineral) at all. It is not organic matter or carbon. It is actually a #soil microorganism: #mycorrhizal fungi."

https://understandingag.com/how-do-we-grow-mycorrhizal-colonization/

📢 "#Mycorrhizal #fungi improve growth of Juniperus communis but only at sufficiently high soil element concentrations" by E.R. Veldhuis & collaborators.
#New #publication from our December issue
available at:

https://t.co/19rFrv1oQO

How #mycorrhizal types control #biodiversity effects on #productivity.

#symbiosis #AM #ECM #NPP

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-mycorrhizal-biodiversity-effects-productivity.html

Flashback for #FungiFriday to a single day walk through the incredible K'gari in Great Sandy National Park. Spent HOURS admiring and photographing endless species of fungi. K'gari has #rainforest, #eucalyptus woodland, #mangrove forests, wallum and peat #swamps , #sanddunes and coastal #heath. It is made up of sand that has been accumulating for approximately 750,000 years on volcanic bedrock that provides a natural catchment for the sediment carried on a strong offshore current northwards along the coast. Unlike on many sand dunes, plant life is abundant due to the naturally occurring #mycorrhizal #fungi present in the sand, which release nutrients in a form that can be absorbed by the plants. #blessed #FraserIsland #Kgari #Queensland #Australia

#January 7, 1776
#OTD Spencer Turner, Leyton #Nurseryman, died.

Spencer created the Turner's #Oak & gifted one to Princess Augusta for #Kew Gardens.

Planted in the1770's, the #Tree still stands w/ metal struts for support betw/ the PoW Conservatory & the Hive.

The Great Storm (1987) lifted the tree out of the #Earth, freed the #RootPlate from centuries of #Compacted #Soil, & inspired #Arborists to rethink compaction.
They now use air spades to inject #Nitrogen & #Mycorrhizal #Fungi.

Review paper🚨

#protists' role in shaping the microbial communities and soil food webs is usually overlooked. Here's a intersting review on the #AMF microbiome that includes protists 😍

"Hyphosphere #microbiome of arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi a realm of unknowns"

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-022-01683-4

#MicrobialEukaryotes #

RT @madi_784@twitter.com

In our review paper, "#Hyphosphere microbiome of #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi, a realm of unknowns", we have provided a summary of important considerations for experimental design/approaches when studying the AMF hyphosphere microbiome:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00374-022-01683-4

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/madi_784/status/1597345602442260480

RT @madi_784
The extraradical hyphae-associated microbiome of #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi harbors a diverse reservoir of microbes with different functions! An amazing world to discover! check out our new review on "#AMF #hyphosphere #microbiome"
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-022-01683-4

RT @madi_784
In our review paper, "#Hyphosphere microbiome of #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi, a realm of unknowns", we have provided a summary of important considerations for experimental design/approaches when studying the AMF hyphosphere microbiome:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00374-022-01683-4