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<li><span>Fungi take sugars from plants in exchange for nutrients from soil</span></li>

     

       
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<li><span>The presence of fungi predates plant root networks by 400 million years!</span></li>

     

       
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<li><span>When roots first appeared the fungi association was already </span><a href="https://www.healsomerset.org.uk/post/before-roots-by-merlin-sheldrake"><span>50 million years old</span></a></li>

     

       
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<li><span>Responds to resource inequality by withholding/supplying nutrients to distant nodes</span></li>

     

       
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<li><span>Individual nodes specialize into cooperators, traders, selfish actors</span></li>

     

       
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<li><span>Soils packed with pathogenic fungi, yet plants have "handshakes" for friends</span></li>

     

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{.example #fungi title="The Mycorrhizal Fungal Network"}

     

       
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> - When roots first appeared the fungi association was already [50 million years old](https://www.healsomerset.org.uk/post/before-roots-by-merlin-sheldrake)

     

       
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> - Soils packed with pathogenic fungi, yet plants have "handshakes" for friends