Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Friend or foe? Researchers explore ancient partnership between moss and fungi <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-02-friend-foe-explore-ancient-partnership.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-02-friend-f</span><span class="invisible">oe-explore-ancient-partnership.html</span></a></p><p>Multilevel analysis between <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Physcomitrium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physcomitrium</span></a> patens and Mortierellaceae <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/endophytes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endophytes</span></a> explores potential long-standing interaction among land <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> and fungi <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.16605" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10</span><span class="invisible">.1111/tpj.16605</span></a></p><p>"they tracked the subtle but distinct ways the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/moss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moss</span></a> interacted with its fungal neighbors. The team discovered that these interactions came to depend on a unique addition to the cast—<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> within the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a>."</p>