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How hidden soil fungi ‘steal’ bacterial DNA to control the rain
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How hidden soil fungi ‘steal’ bacterial DNA to control the rain | The-14

Hidden soil fungi can trigger rainfall by releasing proteins into clouds, revealing a powerful link between ecosystems, climate, and natural water cycles.

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Earthworm 🐌2d ago

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Hey, that's pretty cool and there are many different concepts to unpack.

However, despite the really beautiful ideas behind (rainmaking as a soil microbial function), I would like to hear from a #meteorologist about how local atmospheric upwards movement of soilborne molecules can be.

I mean, as far as I understand, clouds are seeded in several km altitude, but to reach these heights, I imagine that the particles have to travel horizontally quite far. Therefore, if the particles travel hundreds (?) of km before coming in the upper spheres, I wonder whether there is then a feedback for an evolutionary advantage.

(sorry, I don't want to crash the party, but since it is necessary to be sceptical about theories that sound too nice, because also we scientists want beautiful mechanisms to be important)

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