• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Well screw them, get over here and tell me about it. Sounds interesting as hell, and I only really have a base understanding of it. I’ll get a table ready.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Okay so you know how you have a gut microbiome that’s part of how you digest all this weird crap, like a whole ecosystem? Like how when you eat something you havent in a while, it doesn’t necessarily go down easy, because you might have a small/extinct population of whatever handles some of the stuff in there?

      That’s nothing compared to plants and fungi-anf its not totally clear which, if either, is in control.

  • Match!!@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    right??? like how would you need to adjust the rhizomes for a new planet if it had a suitable atmosphere but no organisms

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      7 months ago

      I guess plants can also grow without mycorrhiza associations or nitrogen fixing bacteria. But otherwise you could probably add fungi/bacteria into the mix, too. I don’t think we are even close to understand all the different interactions between various microorganisms with larger organisms with plants. Even pathogenic associations are sometimes net positive for plants.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    is it true trees use it to communicate and even “think”? sounds dope as fuck tbh.

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      7 months ago

      I’m sceptical. A lot of this is popular science that anthropomorphizes these relationships and blow them out of proportion. What you may think of “communicate” and “think” does not necessarily reflect what is meant in this context.

  • mossy_@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Can someone talk to me about them? Explain like I’m a relatively not-stupid person with little experience in biology