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Fungi can help NASA deduce how climate change affects forests
2016-04-02 04:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Engadget: A team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has developed a new method to detect what kind of mycorrhizae are attached to the roots of trees using only satellite images. Mycorrhizae are fungi that form mutually beneficial relationships with the roots of trees, increasing the plants' absorption capability and providing them with direct access to sugars. There are two types of mycorrhizae, and each tree/plant species is only associated with either one of them. Since the two respond differently to...
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