How Do Fungal Systems Influence Plant Health? | A Molecular Ecologist Explains

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we connect with Martin Bidartondo, a Professor of Molecular Ecology who works in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London. Martin is immensely interested in fungi and plant interactions, which has led to his innovative research on the "evolutionary ecology of the diverse plants that cheat mycorrhizal mutualisms".

As someone that has always had a fascination with interactions between different species, Martin began investigating the symbioses between lineages of plants and fungi more than two decades ago. How are the changes that human life is imposing on the environment interacting with plant and fungal systems? Martin is on a mission to find out…

Join the conversation now to uncover:

How forest ecosystems impact carbon levels and biodiversity.
The integral role that fungi play in the nutritional status of trees.
How industrialism is creating unwanted consequences by increasing carbon output into the environment.
How plants and fungi created soil millions of years ago.

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0:42.3	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding Genius Foundation.
0:43.3	I have Martin Vito Tando.
0:45.3	We're going to talk about the symbiosis between plants and fungi.
0:48.3	Martin's on the faculty of natural sciences, part of the Department of Life Sciences.
0:52.3	He's a professor of molecular ecology.
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0:59.3	Oh, thanks to you.
0:59.9	Yeah, if you would, tell me a bit about your background and how you got involved with fungi
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