Leander has spent months probing this patch of southwest Austin to analyze one organism in particular: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Known as AMF for short, it forms tiny treelike structures that ...

Although most plants can survive without mycorrhizal fungi, the vast network of white filaments beneath our feet, known as the extraradical mycelium, helps plants absorb water and nutrients from ...

Austrian food tech startup Revo Foods has announced the launch of THE PRIME CUT, which is claimed to be a “new kind of functional food designed for performance and longevity”. Rather than attempting ...

Some of these species form partnerships called mycorrhizal symbioses with plant roots. How these fungi grow their networks to find new resources and plant partners, however, isn’t clear.