Study Explores the Roots of Cooperation Between Plants and Fungi
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 14:00
in Earth & Climate
Research published Aug. 12 in the prestigious journal Science sheds light on free-market style cooperation between plants and fungi in what is arguably the most important symbiosis on Earth. The groundbreaking study helps explain how plants were able to colonize the land in Earth's distant past, and what mechanisms stabilize cooperation between plants and fungi in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.