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Our planet’s soils contain enough of the subterranean fungi that sustain plant life and help regulate the climate to stretch from the Earth to the sun almost three-quarters of a billion times, a groundbreaking new study has found.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are networks of tubular cells called hyphae that sustain life on Earth by forming critical partnerships with more than 70% of plants.
The networks, which have been forming for about 475 million years, provide nutrients and w…

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-05-03 12:32:44

Definitely a star sentence of my current Wikipedia dive:
"Like other rootless land plants of the Silurian and early Devonian Aglaophyton may have relied on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for acquisition of water and nutrients from the soil."
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutio
Writing a song that includes verses on plant evolution turns out to be a lot of fun.