Posts Tagged ‘Mycorrhizae’
For some reason, at this time of year I start thinking about what to read over the holidays. If you like studying and learning about fungi, you are probably up for a good topical read once in awhile, not matter what tie of year it is. We’re not talking about the raft of mushroom cookbooks [...]
Tags: books, mushroom books, mycology books, Mycorrhizae, reading
Rehabilitation of an abandoned mine waste site in the Philippines has been assisted by inoculating trees with commercial mycorrhizal inoculum. The article Fungi can rehabilitate barren mine waste dumpsite – study by Rudy A. Fernandez appears in The Philippine Star. The title might be a bit misleading since the fungi aren’t doing the remediation all [...]
Tags: bioremediation, Mycorrhizae, Philippines
A recent paper appearing in the American Journal of Botany reports that mycorrhizae are more prevalent in the roots of female individuals of the grass the Distichlis spicata than in the roots of male plants. According to Sex-specific variation in the interaction between Distichlis spicata (Poaceae) and mycorrhizal fungi by researchers at Portland State University: [...]
Tags: Distichlis, females, grass, Mycorrhizae, VAM
