Mushrooms helped plants to invade Earth Science | News | the sun – Awani Review

UThe team of international researchers, led by the Laboratory of Research Laboratory in Plant Sciences (LRSV) team in Toulouse III, found the missing link in a theory dating back to the 1980s. It assumes that the ancestor of all existing terrestrial plants, possibly freshwater algae that emerged from the water about 450 million years ago, lived in symbiosis with tiny fungi to thrive on Earth.
Today, about 80% of the earth’s plants use this symbiosis, in which the underground fungus is considered…

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