Are plants and fungi trading carbon for nutrients? Not likely, say researchers

Are plants and fungi trading carbon for nutrients? Not likely, say researchers

Every year, plants move 3.58 gigatons of carbon to mycorrhizal fungi, their underground partners—enough, in fact, that if it were ice,...
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from: Phys.org

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