{"id":9627,"date":"2025-03-01T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T08:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-fungi-move-among-us\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T08:40:44","slug":"how-fungi-move-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-fungi-move-among-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fungi Move Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-dm4b14 e1wiw3jv0\">Mycorrhizal fungi are the supply chains of the soil. With filaments thinner than hair, they shuttle vital nutrients to plants and tree roots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>In return, the fungi receive carbon to grow their networks. In this way, 13 billion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide \u2014 one-third of fossil-fuel emissions worldwide \u2014 enter the soil each year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>These fungi cannot live on their own; they need the carbon from plants. In turn, 80 percent of the world\u2019s plants rely on fungal networks to survive and thrive. The two are dependent trade partners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>These fungi make uncannily smart choices, even without a brain or central nervous system. Scientists describe them as \u201cliving algorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trade algorithms reward efficiency: Build the most lucrative pathway possible for the lowest construction cost.<\/p>\n<p>Fungal networks appear to assess demand and supply. Which plants need its nutrients the most? Which offer the most carbon? Where is the optimal payoff? This analysis shapes how the networks expand, as scientists learned when they mapped the growth in real-time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>\u201cFungi are super clever,\u201d said Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist at the Free University of Amsterdam. \u201cThey\u2019re constantly adapting their trade routes. They\u2019re evaluating their environment very precisely. It\u2019s a lot of decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>How do fungi do it? To find out, Dr. Kier and her colleagues grew fungi in hundreds of petri dishes, or \u201cfungal arenas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, with an imaging robot, the team tracked the growth of the networks nonstop for days, measuring how the organisms reshaped their trade routes in response to different conditions. Their study was published on Feb. 26 in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>From special nodes, or growing tips, the fungi deploy filaments that explore and assess new territory. Over several days, the scientists labeled and monitored a half-million new nodes and mapped the expansion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>The growth revealed fungal decision-making in action. For instance, the team learned, a fungus will forgo trading with nearby plants in favor of more distant ones if the return in carbon is greater.<\/p>\n<p>Fungal networks are sometimes described as the soil\u2019s circulatory system. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>But in fungal networks the flow is open. Carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, water and even fungal nuclei move in either direction, even in opposite directions at once.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s physically mind-boggling,\u201d said Tom Shimizu, a biophysicist at AMOLF, a physics institute in Amsterdam, and whose lab built the robot. The fungus, he said, \u201cis basically a microbe that plays economic games. How do you do that if you\u2019re just a tube of fluid flowing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They do it by obeying some basic local rules, it turns out. As the growing tips progress, new branches form behind them at a steady rate. But when one tip hits another, they fuse and form a loop.<\/p>\n<p>This removes dead ends, avoids wasteful expansion and keeps resources moving quickly on the main highways. The edge of the fungal network expands like a ripple, laying down an efficient trading nexus as it goes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p>Scientists still want to understand how fungi move so much carbon so far without clogging the pipes. And they hope to simulate how these ancient organisms respond to wildfires, drought and other disruptions from climate change. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to figure out how they play the games they play,\u201d Dr. Shimizu said.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Credits: Corentin Bisot &#8211; AMOLF\/VU Amsterdam; Loreto Oyarte Ga\u0301lvez &#8211; VU Amsterdam\/AMOLF; Rachael Cargill &#8211; VU Amsterdam\/AMOLF; Vasilis Kokkoris &#8211; VU Amsterdam\/AMOLF\/SPUN; Joe Togneri\/SPUN; Loek Vugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Produced by <!-- -->Antonio de Luca<!-- --> and <!-- -->Elijah Walker<!-- -->. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/01\/science\/climate-mycorrhizal-fungus-networks.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mycorrhizal fungi are the supply chains of the soil. 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