Plants Communicate Through Enormous Fungal Network

http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2013/08/mycorrhizal-fungi-the-worlds-biggest-drinking-straws-and-largest-unseen-communication-system.html?utm_source=Agro.biodiver.se+subscribers&utm_campaign=dffdf604d11-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_949cf01306-dffdf604d1-44963957

Basically, mycorrhizae are tiny tendrils of fungus that connect a huge amount of plant life and allow them to communicate. Plants can learn immune responses to aphids, for example, from plants far away who have dealt with them. Scientists estimate there exist between 1.5 and 4 TONS of mycorrhizae per human on the earth.

This is the coolest fucking thing I've read in a long time. I'm in love with mycorrhizae. Planternet for most IDM 2014.

So basically plants are kind of like Jedi?

That is fucking cool.

Plants were ahead of us all this time then?

(fights the urge to don aluminum foil hat)

  On 9/12/2013 at 6:32 PM, ambermonk said:

Plants were ahead of us all this time then?

 

(fights the urge to don aluminum foil hat)

They come from the ground. Put the foil hats on your feet.

  On 9/12/2013 at 6:25 PM, Timothy Forward said:

So basically plants are kind of like Jedi?

no more than you and i are jedi because of the internets

The world is at our tendril-tips

that's AWESOME!

M. Night Shyamalan was fucking right.

I didnt realize The Happening was a fucking documentary. must rewatch

Sorry nature, sounds like a bad ripoff of Avatar. I though James Cameron was supposed to be the one who ripped these ideas off from other people?

To anyone here interested in growing plants, mycorrhizal inoculants are awesome for for growing.

Plants? No they're the alien lifeforms we all have been hoping for. No humanoids, but tiny tendrils of fungus. The emerging networks covering the planet far exceeding the complexity and intelligence of a human brain.

also, lol

So when I cut the grass, the grass I am coming up to cut is in fear as it knows what is going to happen?

sounds like the beginning of the Zerg to me.

  On 9/12/2013 at 10:15 PM, Frankie5fingers said:

sounds like the beginning of the Zerg to me.

mods please add hydralisk emoticon.

  On 9/12/2013 at 8:01 PM, goDel said:

Plants? No they're the alien lifeforms we all have been hoping for. No humanoids, but tiny tendrils of fungus. The emerging networks covering the planet far exceeding the complexity and intelligence of a human brain.

 

 

also, lol

Mushroom spores can exist for thousands, maybe millions of years in space and then germinate once reaching soil. Just sayin'.

Awesome. Some parasitic plants also incorporate mycorrhizal symbiosis to connect to the vascular tissue of their host/parent.

This stuff is pretty much exactly what I'm aiming to study and research in a couple/few years.

  On 9/13/2013 at 1:11 AM, Capsaicin said:

Awesome. Some parasitic plants also incorporate mycorrhizal symbiosis to connect to the vascular tissue of their host/parent.

 

This stuff is pretty much exactly what I'm aiming to study and research in a couple/few years.

As my girlfriend said, the parallels between our own internet are interesting, but theirs is far more advanced!

In what capacity will you be studying this stuff? That sounds amazing.

As wabby said apparently some types of fungal spores are perfectly fit for maintaining stability in harsh extraplanetary conditions. No evolutionary process on earth could create these qualities

They're so fucking aliens

Yes, we're onto something.

I'm sure they built those pyramids as well. No man could think of building giant triangular tombs, so it had to be the fungi controlling the minds of Egyptians. And it also explains why those pyramids have been built all over the world. It's a global network of fungi. Duh

  On 9/13/2013 at 2:25 AM, A/D said:

 

  On 9/13/2013 at 1:11 AM, Capsaicin said:

Awesome. Some parasitic plants also incorporate mycorrhizal symbiosis to connect to the vascular tissue of their host/parent.

 

This stuff is pretty much exactly what I'm aiming to study and research in a couple/few years.

I would love to read more about that. That sounds crazy. Trojans!

 

As my girlfriend said, the parallels between our own internet are interesting, but theirs is far more advanced!

 

In what capacity will you be studying this stuff? That sounds amazing.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbuscular_mycorrhiza

I'm hoping to do some research with my college or something. I'm aiming to focus on fungal plant pathogens, and probably ways to prevent or cure such related diseases. Probably a bunch of crop stuff regarding wheat or something.

Idm as fuck. Also, could Swamp Thing be the missing link?

Fungalnet for most IDM 2014-2040

pretty deep http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-83446,00.html