News Updates

2024

• TERI and CFCL launch Mycorrhiza Product
• Inoculation against diseased fields
• Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots
• Mycorrhizal fungi promote greater tree species diversity
• Genes controlling mycorrhizal colonization discovered in soybean
• Natural, Man-made Mix Promises Biggest Landscape Plant Growth
• Mycorrhizae ROI - Reduced Water Usage
• Mycorrhizae Return on Investment - Production Efficiency - Blair Busenbark
• Plants and fungi together could slow climate change
• Plants Grown with Mycorrhizae Perform in Propagation- Blair Busenbark
• Transplant Success is a Major Reason for Mycorrhizae Use- Blair Busenbark
• Mycorrhizal Fungi Team Up with Mums and Poinsettias -Katie Gustafson
• Applying MycoApply Injector Endo Organic - Katie Gustafson
• Tech Tips: How to Utilize Mycorrhizae in Hydroponics - Blair Busenbark
• Rice Farming

February 2021

• Genetic 'cut and paste' to achieve more nutritious and resistant plants
• New eco-friendly technique protects rice plants against devastating fungal infection
• Scientists analyse plant microbes to understand crop health and boost food production
• Adaptation to nitrogen
• In symbiosis: Plants control the genetics of microbes
• Researchers find peptide that treats, prevents killer citrus disease

January 2021

• How the small Indian farmer can turn the wheels of sustainable agriculture

December 2020

• Farm stubble to biochar - to boost crop yield
• Precision agriculture could boost India's food production capacity, encourage sustainable farming

June 2020

• For better collaboration
• Beneficial fungi
• In rotation with potatoes
• A win/win situation
• Standing in the rain
• Role in root exudation
• Mycorrhiza for pumpkins

May 2020

• Secrets Revealed
• Capturing variation in BVOC transport
• Simplifying the complicated
• Carbon from fungi
• Inoculants
• No-Till Soybeans
• Call of the wild
• Celebrating the work Professor Sally Smith
• Into the murky world
• Know about plant phosphorus
• Magic mushrooms

April 2020

• Pointers for a functional garden
• Pointers for a functional garden
• Making the best of our extra time
• Challenges in working out the 2020 crop
• Pulling through with seeds
• Deducing a pathway for resistance
• In a Bonsai’s life
• Thwarting a pest
• Understanding mycorrhizae
• The mining machine
• Guarding Living collections
• Carbon in forests

March 2020

• Parisitism in Mycorrhiza
• Recognition and Accommodation of Beneficial Organisms
• Hijacking one of Nature's Oldest Symbioses
• More than just a pretty look
• Mushrooms: The Art, Design and future of Fungi
• Reversing the downward trajectory of terrestrial ecosystems
• Plants, Microbes, Soil and Humans
• Domestication of plants and their microbiome
• Options for MycoApply

February 2020

• Dispersers of mycorrhizal fungi
• An Alarming Loss
• Up to one kilometer of fungal filaments
• Complex and Interesting Soil Ecosystem
• Better the root, Better the plant
• Symbiosis for a delicacy
• Strigolactones and Mycorrhiza
• Mitti Ke Doctor
• Turning it productive with Spekboom
• For Optimal Root Growth and a seed starter
• Mycoremediation in Earth Talk
• Leafminers and mycorrhizae in onions
• Tuber uncinatum/aestivum in California

January 2020

• Plans for 2020
• Excess could harm
• Controlling Mycorrhizal Colonization
• Not in the cards for Sugar Maples
• No-Till Farmer Podcast
• AMF as keystone organisms
• Green Thumb Lecture Series
• From the thawing permafrost
• The gorgeous anggrek bambu
• Snow Adapted Mushrooms
• Reducing Crop Shrink
• Lessons from a Master Gardener
• Over a quarter of Ectomycorrhizal fungal species in 50 years
• Exploiters of Mycorrhizal and Saprotrophic fungi
• Feeding a planet that is experiencing climate change
• Excerpts from a conversation with Dr. Alok Adholeya
• Fossil fungi
• It's the little things: Microbial Research
• Getting off the soil degradation curve
• A recipe for improved soil health

December 2019

• Genomic Gymnastics
• Diversity of Soil Organic Matter
• Seed Treatment as Biological Therapy
• Something in the Soil
• Keeping GMOs at bay
• Mycorrhizal migration
• Helping a Medicinal herb
• Combo vaccine for plants
• At the Organic growers' Summit
• Combined vision
• Reflect for a better Future
• Afforestation Drones
• Through an Encyclical
• Hugelkultur
• Supplying the appropriate microbe
• Seaweeds and mycorrhizae
• Lessons on Healing Plants
• Reducing a technology's time to market
• From Wood Decay to Symbiosis

November 2019

• Italy's white delicacies
• MykoPlus at Valencia's FIESTA
• Rooftop of another world
• Parasols from fairy tales
• A Food Story
• In the Myristica Swamps
• The Magical Fly Agaric
• Shirks sunlight and Survives
• Root mind and intelligence of bushes
• Slowing down Climate Change

October 2019

• Global Agricultural Microbial Market Research Report
• GE cradle-to-grave tree
• Soil fungi and rare-species advantage
• Ask the experts
• Healthy Soils and Fuel Bills
• Sudden Oak Death
• Mushrooms in our ecosystem
• The Fruit of the Fungi
• Underground's descend into chaos
• Regenerative Agriculture
• For One's Yard in Florida
• Mycorrhizae Levels in 2019
• Bid Goodbye to Fertilizers
• Biologicals by Bayer
• A Symbiotic Boost for Tomato

SEPTEMBER 2019

• Functional Plant Genes to Reduce Pollution
• Climate Change... Changes to soil fungi... Changes to tree distribution
• International Symposium on Buckwheat
• The future of phosphorus
• Mulch for a healthy garden
• Forest Forensics and Climate Change

August 2019

• To find the best combination of fungi and trees...
• So...Why Compost?
• A key first step in setting yield potential
• Spooked...Oh...Um...by an Orchid?
• The concept of Reciprocal Restoration
• To advance soil health
• The world below the grass
• Dealing with Compaction
• For the Monarch...
• Post flood restoration
• Rules for planting bulbs
• Need for adjusting Nitrogen Deposition
• Rhizodegradation
• Extra Carbon? Store it in here please...
• New Orchid Species from Japan
• Holocene to Anthropocene

JULY 2019

• Another big year for grape and wine research
• Cover crops improve soil health
• Among the summer reading list…..
• Symborg to talk about seed coating at ICOM-10
• Altitude record for porcini mushrooms
• Can small scale farmers grow a healthier California?
• The New MycoApply Injector Endo
• ICOM-11 and ICOM-12 venues announced

JUNE 2019

• Bad news for all species: Plant extinction
• Brainless fungi trade resources with plants like a stock market
• New micro needle techniques speeds plant disease detection
• Global Bio-fertilizers Market Report 2019
• Methods in belowground botany
• How to film fantastic fungi?
• When science and art come together to talk about a historical feat……..
• Soil analysis to lower costs and increase yields
• New family arrives in the block
• Flummoxed by Flowers
• Transformation of a farm
• Agricultural Inoculant Market 2019
• Climate change and symbiosis
• The living soil beneath our feet
• Wild flower lend hints about soil fertility
• When do cover crops pay?
• Biofertilizers report 2019
• Soil biological additives suit some situations
• NZ EPA declines application to import fungus
• Soil can limit or reinforce damage caused by drought
• World Microbiome Day – 27 June
• To till or not to till?

MAY 2019

• Global map of the WWW
• Long term ground work by AMF
• Fungal fossil discovery is so revealing
• Mapping symbiotic relationships
• Supporting the soil carbon sponge
• Summertime Garden
• Organic gardening
• Ancient trait might hold a key to agriculture’s future
• Eating in the symbiocene

APRIL 2019

• Antagonistic responses to symbiotic AM fungi in a non-host.
• The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
• Fungi are everywhere….
• U. S. forests are a double-edged sword for environment
• Fungi among us
• Mycorrhizal Applications and Mycorrhiza
• Shaping Global Biomes through local underground alliances
• Harnessing the plant Microbiome
• How trampling affects wild flowers…
• Elusive desert truffles of Kuwait

MARCH 2019

• New structures at plant-fungal interface
• Partnership between plants and fungi
• Are fungi keeping fertilizer from plants
• Converting research to scalable ideas
• Microbial seed treatment for Borage

FEBRUARY 2019

• Novel compartment in AM revealed.
• Global plant colonization and fungi
• Like a creature in the mist
• A billion years of co-evolution
• AM fungi in agricultural ecosystems
• Cultivating Bacteria
• Plants? More intelligent than we think?
• Legume roots accommodate two distinct microbial partners
• Establishment of a biodiverse group on Earth.

JANUARY 2019

• Stowaway fungi hitch a ride with birds to be with their fungal partners
• Wildfires spark population booms in fungi and bacteria
• Through the Fungal Internet……
• Unearthing data to help plants
• Fossil amoeba helps to understand how plants first bloomed

MARCH 2018

• Use Smart Sprinklers
• Neurobotany
• Garden Notes: The birds are returning
• Seedlings, compost and overgrown orchids
• Soil fungi may help determine the resilience of forests to environmental change

FEBRUARY 2018

• Tomatoes for 2018
• A New Green Revolution?
• Garden Notes: The birds are returning
• How Mycorrhizae Provide Value at Your Greenhouse or Nursery
• Marrone Bio Innovations and Groundwork BioAg Bio-stacked Microbial Seed Treatments Result in Increased Corn and Soybean Yields for the Second Field Trial Season
• Valent U.S.A. Launches New Soil Enhancement Tool to Help Corn Growers Get More out of Every Acre