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Gene transfer on the fungal highway
- gumby 10y agoThis is fascinating work (IMHO). As a side point it points to what I consider the major risk of products like Roundup (glyphosate): as a side effect it breaks up the shallow subterranean structure of fungal hyphae, bacteria etc that manage water percolation, nutrition, soil replenishment etc. Glyphosate has been attacked as causing cancer (I still doubt that) but it is probably very dangerous at the macro level, where people aren't paying attention. The real fix is robots doing the farming (weeding, pruning etc) instead of humans and chemicals. Probably in my lifetime.