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Plants feed mycorrhizae lipids as well as carbs

By Ben Stallings, 27 February, 2020

This article is from 2017 but deserves reading: for years we had been told that plants only fed simple carbohydrates -- what Dr. Elaine Ingham likes to call "cakes and cookies" -- to their symbiotic fungi, but it turns out that the mycorrhizae actually alter the plant's biochemistry so that the plant feeds them fatty acids as well. So put some cream cheese frosting on those cakes and cookies!

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  • symbiosis
  • soil science
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