Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks

Nature, Published online: 26 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00307-9Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on how these fungal networks are constructed.

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Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks

Nature, Published online: 26 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00307-9Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on how these fungal networks are constructed.