Recent discussions on soil health, soil degradation, and soil security have increased awareness of Canada’s forests and their soils as national assets. Foremost is their ability to support timber prod...

A lab experiment shows that Dark Septate Endophytes can form common fungal networks between plants, increasing biomass and enabling water movement, suggesting that non-mycorrhizal fungi may contribute...

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Trait spectra have been used in various branches of ecology to explain and predict patterns of species distributions. Several categorical and continuous traits have been proposed as relevant for ecto...

Experiments have shown that when one plant is attacked by a pathogen or herbivore, this can lead to other plants connected to the same mycorrhizal ...

Background & aims Tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) is an economically important crop with a narrow natural distribution in eastern Australia. Coastal and upland tea tree ecotypes have been identified...

PDF | On Jan 21, 2025, Suzanne W. Simard and others published Opinion: Response to questions about common mycorrhizal networks | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

For decades, microbiome network theory has predicted that highly connected ‘hub’ taxa act as keystone species that disproportionately affect their communities. However, this has never been empiricall....

Nature Reviews Genetics - Controlling for phylogeny is essential in comparative genomics studies, because species, genomes and genes are not independent data points within statistical tests. The...

L’idée est si émouvante qu’elle a conquis le public, Hollywood, et jusqu’aux plus hautes institutions  : les arbres communiqueraient via un réseau secret… Sauf que c’est faux. Les scientifiques ont...