Institutional development · Research, innovation and assessment · Germany
TUM researchers visualise plant root and fungus networks in soil for the first time
A Technical University of Munich team says it has, for the first time, made the underground network of plant roots and fungi visible, and explains its link to climate resilience in a Quarks episode.
Why it matters: Prof. Mutez Ahmed's team at TUM links its reported first visualisation of root–fungus networks to helping plants become climate-resilient.
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) said its researchers have succeeded for the first time in visualising the network formed by plant roots and fungi in the soil.
According to TUM, Prof. Mutez Ahmed and his team explain in an episode of Quarks how this work helps make plants climate-resilient.
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Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor
TUM reports that Prof. Mutez Ahmed's team has made the root–fungus network in soil visible for the first time, and the team presents this work in a Quarks episode as helping to make plants climate-resilient.
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