SilentMYKE2.MOV

Actual footage of the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal hyphae and plant roots. Notice the "two lane highway" of nutrients and water flowing to the plant and the sugars flowing to the fungi. Video courtesy of PremierTech Biotechnologies.

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Science & Technology

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• Mycorrhizae
• mycorrhiza
• MYKE
• hyphae
• roots
• fungus
• Arbor Valley Nursery
• MYKE Pro
• soil food web

[ArborValley]

With ectomycorrhizae, the hyphae attach to the exterior of the plant roots. In either situation, the symbiotic relationship between the plant and the spore begins, with the plant providing energy to the spore to create this extended plumbing system.

[ArborValley]

Replying to your comment though our MYKE Pro Landscape partner, Arbor Valley Nursery. What you see in the video is the transportation of carbohydrates along the 2-lane highway formed by the plant and mycorrhizae spore. When the dormant spore is near an active root system, chemical signals naturally exuded by the plant roots “wake up” the spore, and formation of the hyphae by the spore begins. With endomycorrhizae, the hyphae actually penetrate the plant roots.

[lushfauna]

Can you make one of the fungi eating the sugars? Also the 2 lane highway- Does it tap directly to the root or does it surround it? Do the fungi build the highways or does the plant provide it due to their pressence?

Thanks, great vid