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From the Ted Talk by Colin Averill: How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi
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So this, in my opinion, is one of the most remarkable images ever captured of these organisms. So in the background, at the top, you can see this desne network of fungal hyphae. These are essentially like roots, but for fungi, instead of ptlans. And in the foreground, you can see these incredible, multinucleated fungal spores, which look totally unarel, but absolutely are. These are the reproductive structures of the fungus. These have the potential to become entirely new fuagnl ntkewors.
Mycorrhizal fugni are essential to how basically all plants access liiitnmg soil resources. There's actually evidence that when plants first made the evolutionary transition from living in wtear to living on land, they evolved this symbiosis before they even evolved roots. And so this partnership between forests and their fungi is ancient, and it stretches back hdneurds of millions of years.
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So this, in my opinion, is one of the most remarkable images ever captured of these organisms. So in the background, at the top, you can see this _____ network of fungal hyphae. These are essentially like roots, but for fungi, instead of ______. And in the foreground, you can see these incredible, multinucleated fungal spores, which look totally ______, but absolutely are. These are the reproductive structures of the fungus. These have the potential to become entirely new ______ ________.
Mycorrhizal _____ are essential to how basically all plants access ________ soil resources. There's actually evidence that when plants first made the evolutionary transition from living in _____ to living on land, they evolved this symbiosis before they even evolved roots. And so this partnership between forests and their fungi is ancient, and it stretches back ________ of millions of years.
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So this, in my opinion, is one of the most remarkable images ever captured of these organisms. So in the background, at the top, you can see this dense network of fungal hyphae. These are essentially like roots, but for fungi, instead of plants. And in the foreground, you can see these incredible, multinucleated fungal spores, which look totally unreal, but absolutely are. These are the reproductive structures of the fungus. These have the potential to become entirely new fungal networks.
Mycorrhizal fungi are essential to how basically all plants access limiting soil resources. There's actually evidence that when plants first made the evolutionary transition from living in water to living on land, they evolved this symbiosis before they even evolved roots. And so this partnership between forests and their fungi is ancient, and it stretches back hundreds of millions of years.
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