Dyes applied to cuts in older pines showed up in seedlings, suggesting water transfer via fungal hyphae. But the study authors say evidence is shaky that such water transfer actually improves ...

Air and water can flow through these tunnels, to improve the aggregation and tilth of the soil and support plant growth. The relationship between plants and mycorrhizae occurs when fungal hyphae ...

Because the soil layer was so thin, most hyphae ... absorbing water and nutrients from the soil, facilitated by their greater hyphal connections,” they said in the same study. Fungal mycelium ...

Blue-stain Fungi are a group of wood-colonising fungi that cause a characteristic discolouration in the sapwood of trees, ...

AM fungi make threads of hyphae thinner than spider silk and weave them through plant roots. Then, they begin to trade, offering plants water and phosphorus, a vital plant nutrient in soils.

After all, when it comes down it, roots are essentially just intricate water-transporting structures ... in nature than plant roots and fungal hyphae?". A paper on the research was recently ...

Fungal hyphae may be small and operating at the microscopic scale ... Rock is turned into soil as it’s weathered by wind, water and ice. Rock-eating bacteria also break down rock, releasing its ...