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personMycorrhizal fungi are beneficial fungi that colonize plant roots to aid nutrient uptake.
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But what Karst and her colleagues started to question years later was that this behaviour doesn't seem to lie within the fungi's self-interest at all.
But to actually know whether these fungi link together in one big continuous network across a forest, well, scientists would need to analyze the DNA of the fungi and the plant roots they attach to everywhere in the woods.
There has been research mapping the presence of mycorrhizal fungi using techniques like machine learning.
Many mycorrhizal fungi can and do form associations with lots of different host species, which would suggest that networks are common in forests.
All the way back in 1885, the German plant biologist Albert Bernard Frank wrote a paper describing the symbiosis between plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi in Prussian truffle districts.
Their name comes from the Greek myx meaning fungi and rhiza meaning root, which is accurate because these fungi form their relationships with the roots of their plant partners, extending the reach of the plants through a fungal network called the mycelium.
The term mycorrhizal fungi refers to a broad group of species that have been forming beneficial partnerships with plants for over 450 million years.
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