For a bit of background, I started making the game when I was in grad school to teach students (and myself) about the soil and the microscopic organisms that live in it. The thing that really interested me in the concept was the idea of a underground ‘marketplace’ where plants trade resources with fungi (this was the focus of my supervisor’s lab, and I actually spent a significant amount of time looking for them under a microscope). The main educational goal of the game is to illustrate just how dynamic the exchange of resource can be, and how this can stabilize the symbiosis between partners.

In the game itself, you play as a seedling, and must balance the incoming nitrogen and phosphorous from mycorrhizae against your supply of carbon. Mycorrhizae can be stingy or generous in trading resources, and there’s an element of randomness to each one. There is also some shooter defense against pathogens using antimicrobial chemicals emitted by mycorrhizae.

Here is a Steam page with more details: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3075670/Mycocosm/

The demo will be released in the next few days on the same page.

Am intrigued by them.

Could you guys help me identify this arbuscular mycorrhizae spores found in disturbed soils underneath solanacea plants. Ecuador coast region.

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Hi guys! Have been using Great White for adding into my nutrient solution but was wondering if there is something better for outdoors? I only have about 50-60 sq ft of soil I would like to add it to. I know there are water-in options, powder you can add to the bottom and top of transplants, etc...just curious what ya'll would recommend.

I'm working on a semi-educational game about Mycorrhizae, and I'd like to read more about them to do my homework on the topic, so I'm looking for interesting-to read books like Peter Wohlleben's The ​Hidden Life of Trees. I'm especially interested in how they spread, how they compete (if they are), what are their obstacles or enemies found in nature.

If you could answer these questions or point to articles about them, that is also very much appreciated :)

In a 10,000# compost pile ( wood chips) I innoculated it a few weeks back with 55 # Urea, 28# sugar, 40# hardwood ash, and because it was loaded with oak chips 40# lime. tarped it and so far turned it once.

Today I pulled the Tarp under it are loads of little button white mushrooms. I suspect portabello.

There are rich hyphae clumps under them.

The question: Will turning the pile destroy the hyphae, or will it merely distribute them more widely?

The end goal for these piles is soil amendments for vegetable gardening.

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Anyone use it for plant food

What do my reddit folks know about harvesting mycorrhizae for marijuana cultivation?

I saw this phrase on Wikipedia but Google and Wikipedia doesn't seem to be giving me a straight answer.

I've been trying to find a source for some piriformospora indica in the states or even abroad if it can be shipped. I can see that there's a fair amount of university and private research being conducted so I know it's obtainable. However, I've had no luck on a vendor. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Hey folks, I am looking to inoculate a few dozen B&B oak trees in our nursery with the Horticultural Alliance's "DIEHARD Ecto-Injectable" product. I don't have access to one of the fancy expensive devices that you would usually use for deep "feeding" trees, so I was wondering if anyone has thoughts on an effective way to use this product for a person on a tight budget. For those unfamiliar, B&B rootballs are quite dense (think hardened clay), so a drench is not really possible without wasting a lot of the product. I was thinking to maybe create some wells in the root ball, apply the powder dry into the well (the product is water soluble), and then deep water afterwards. Thoughts or better ideas appreciated!

Henlo. :)
If you pour spores to a deep pot and after a time the mycorrhizae connected to a plant at the top already but at the bottom is plenty spores they'll said to each other to "hey come up we are connected, why don't you join?" or the bottom spores only activated when the root connected to them / the already connected mycorhizzae touches them?

I hope it understandable.https://ibb.co/LkBFjDh

Thank you :)

MengYuan Xi et al. take an important first step to unraveling the diversity and composition of AMF communities in citrus. Read the Editor's Pick paper here: https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PBIOMES-03-22-0014-R#.Y87wYgfrxT8.reddit

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Hi! Is anyone on here doing sequencing of AMF on an Illumina platform? TIA!

I hope my question is not completely off base. Some tropicals do not like large amounts of calcium found in the molasses that I use to feed the mycorrhizae. I was wondering if other types of sugars could be used to feed beneficial fungi? Thank you.

Hi fungus fans - Saw the last post here was about a year ago and wanted to see if there were still any active myco growers here.

Hi folks,

I'm looking to buy some Ericoid Mycorrhiza for my blueberries. Any ideas where I might find some. I've looked on the net and can't find any in Canada. Closest I came was a UK website. Is this stuff that hard to come by?

Thanks

Hi guys, I've been having a bit of a hard time finding actually photos of mycorrhizal fungi in potted plants. I think I found one, would someone please confirm these are mycorrhizae? Thank you,

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Hello, I am worried about an old maple which showed signs of disease or stress last summer.

Might a mycorrhizal treatment help support its recovery ?

I cannot think of any other treatment.

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Thank you. David G (in England)

Hey folks! Just found this sub and I have a noob-ish question about mycorrhizal fungi. I have a cacao plant that I'd like to inoculate w/mycorrhizal fungi. I found some scientific articles talking about the species that are generally associated w/ Theobroma cacao and I am curious if cacao will form a mycorrizal association with other fungus or if it has to be the specific fungus from their native range. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00041370 This is one of the articles. In general, do plants form this kind of relation with only one or a few fungi or are they more accepting of a wide variety of fungi? Sorry I know this is a strange question, I'm having trouble finding answers online. I just don't know if I can buy some mycorrhizae online and expect them to colonize the roots of my cacao.