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Morel mushroom may grow crop of its own

A fungus could be a farmer itself, sowing, cultivating and harvesting bacteria

FUNGAL FARMERS  Strands of the thick-footed morel fungus serve as a highway for common soil bacteria, marked with a glowing protein, traveling to new territory. The highways could be a fungal version of planting bacteria as a crop.

Martin Pion

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

A sought-after mushroom that people can’t farm might be the first fungus known to do some agriculture itself.