Lukas VFN 🇪🇺#Mushrooms and their post-rain, electrical conversations https://phys.org/news/2023-04-mushrooms-post-rain-electrical-conversations.html
Electrical potentials in the ectomycorrhizal #fungi #Laccaria bicolor after a rainfall event https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1754504823000065
"Electrical potentials of 6 Laccaria bicolor fruit bodies were measured in the field. Electrical potentials were increased after the rain. Causality analysis showed electrical signal transport among fruit bodies."
Mushrooms and their post-rain, electrical conversations
Certain fungi play a critical role in the ecological sustenance of forest trees. Ectomycorrhizal fungi are one such example. Commonly found on pine, oak, and birch trees, ectomycorrhizal fungi form a sheath around the outside of tree roots, and their mycelial body develops into vast underground networks that absorb vital nutrients from the soil and transfer it to the trees.