Is That a Tree Inside a Plant Cell? It's a Fungus! – Getting to the Root of Plant-Fungi Interactions with Katie Field
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
About 90% of plants have partners that enrich their life – fungal partners, specifically, and nutritional enrichment that the plants use for growth, reproduction, and photosynthesis. How do these relationships form and develop, and what do they look like?
Tune in to explore:
- How long fungal spores can survive in soil, waiting to germinate in the presence of the right plant
- How plants sense that a particular fungus will have a beneficial effect on them
- Whether fungi have microbiomes and associations with bacteria and viruses
- How fungi transfer nutrients from the soil to the plants they're associated with
Katie Field is a professor in plant-fungi interactions at the University of Sheffield in the UK. She discusses all this and more in today's episode -- press play for the full conversation.
Visit https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/people/academic-staff/katie-j-field to learn more about Field's research.
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:29.0 | Com the geniuses. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 0:43.0 | I have Katie Field. |
| 0:45.0 | She's a professor in plant soil processes at University of Sheffield over in the UK. |
| 0:50.0 | So we're going to talk about our research. |
| 0:52.0 | So Katie, welcome and thanks for coming. |
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