New research published in the journal Nature on February 26, 2025, uses advanced robotics to track the hyper-efficient supply chains formed between plants and mycorrhizal fungi as they trade carbon and nutrients across the complex, living networks that help regulate the Earth’s atmosphere and ecosystems.
Understanding the plant-fungal trade is urgent because these fungal networks draw down around 13 billion tons of CO2 per year into the soil—equivalent to ~1/3 of global energy-related emissions.
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