"A lot of large-scale agriculture practices harm fungal networks. The most apparent way is with something like tilling, where you go into a soil and literally rip it up.” Fertilisers or fungicides can also “disrupt the symbiosis between the plants and the fungi”.

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Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study finds | Fungi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/11/arbuscular-mycorrhizal-fungi-plant-life-climate-global-mapping-study

Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study finds

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life

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