Bees pollinating pumpkin flowers
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Treating plants with different types of root-dwelling fungi resulted in larger flowers, and bees visited the plants more often and spent more time there.
“[These fungi] “This could benefit pollinators as well as the plants themselves and the soil.” Aidy Guzman at Stanford University in California.
Guzman and her colleagues grew pumpkin plants (pepo pumpkin) were inoculated with four combinations of mycorrhizal fungi of different species. These fungi continue to live…
Source: www.newscientist.com
