Hello everyone,
I just came across this article on the Wired that talks about some fungus researchers found on the Yellowstone Park, that make plants thrive in harsh environments.
The first thing that came to my mind was to use them in conjunction with our beloved plant. They came out with a product called BioEnsure. If Google it their web site is the first one to come up.
Here is a quote from the article, and the link to it will be below.
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Take care.
I just came across this article on the Wired that talks about some fungus researchers found on the Yellowstone Park, that make plants thrive in harsh environments.
The first thing that came to my mind was to use them in conjunction with our beloved plant. They came out with a product called BioEnsure. If Google it their web site is the first one to come up.
Here is a quote from the article, and the link to it will be below.
One day over lunch with colleagues, an argument erupted over whether environments with more diverse plant life are less tolerant of extreme conditions. And so, they went to the most extreme place they could think of to find out the answer: the depths of Yellowstone National Park.
Temperatures there range from 68°F to a scorching 150°F, and geologists had previously classified the soil as sterile. And yet, while in the park, the scientists found that, in fact, some plants did grow there. When they analyzed the plants, the researchers discovered they had been colonized by microscopic fungi and began to question what role the fungi played in allowing the plants to grow.
“It was quite a paradigm shift in the way people view plant adaptation,” he adds. Rodriguez, Redman, and their fellow researchers began to wonder: If this fungi could live within agricultural crops, would it still protect them from harsh climates? In lab experiments, they were able to remove the fungi and found that without it, those very plants no longer could survive in similarly hot conditions. When the fungi was reintroduced, they thrived. “The long and short of it was, though these plants had been in this habitat for a millennia, and had allegedly adapted to the heat stress, it turned out, they weren’t adapted at all,” Rodriguez says. Instead, it was the fungi that enabled the plants to survive.
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