NunyaBidness on Nostr: Mycorrhizal fungi play in both the light and the mud. Part of this thing lives full ...

Mycorrhizal fungi play in both the light and the mud. Part of this thing lives full time inside the plant where light and carbon are packed into lipids and sugars. The other part mines the earth for mineral and organic nutrients.

They also act as the Silk Road for trade between themselves and the plant as they exchange the nutrients for the carbon currencies along it.

In the most fundamental of ways the fungi turned algae into a farmable system. The plants we see today are nothing more than the fungal farmers' design that compels a space to be productive.

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Plants had an already intimate, fifty million year old relationship with mycorrhizal fungi before the first root burrowed into rock and soil. Without the cohesive presence of this fungi inside of plants which, at the time, were little more than puddles of green goo, the very structure of plants as we know them would not have occurred.

Mycorrhizal fungi actually taught plants how to make roots and all terrestrial life owes its existence to that didactic.