Fungal email? (Mycorrhizal communication)

[Amelanchier]

Fungal threads are the internet of the plant world - life - 12 November 2010 - New Scientist

 

Perhaps we should be encouraging interconnectivity of root zones?!? Linking corridors of healthy soil between isolated trees to allow communication? Preventing the severance of existing relationships so that sick trees can help the healthy ones? After all, trees are gregarious by nature...

 

Jumping the gun considerably but maybe this is one for our resident experimenter Mr Humphries?

[Bundle 2]

Thats so coool! Systemic Induced Resistance activated across a network of plants at risk?

[David Humphries]

[Jumping the gun considerably but maybe this is one for our resident experimenter Mr Humphries?

 

 

 

Experimenter, Mmmmmmm I like that.

 

Thought I was just a flying by the proverbial seat of me pants - type bod

 

 

Interesting idea to ponder on.

Possibly another project to blind the boss men with.

 

Good find Professor Sorensen

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

"The communications interface"

 

mmmm didnt someone bring this line of thought to the table before?

[Amelanchier]

Probably. But instead of dropping acid and painting whack pictures someone has actually gone and done some proper research into it. Now its actually factual rather than wishful thinking - I wonder who we have to thank for that eh?

[WeeDee]

I love this! Here we go again!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Probably. But instead of dropping acid and painting whack pictures someone has actually gone and done some proper research into it. Now its actually factual rather than wishful thinking - I wonder who we have to thank for that eh?

 

Yes your right of course tony, absolutley:001_smile:

 

But the real work is in the field, thats where it gets tricky to prove it, any tips?

[Amelanchier]

Yes your right of course tony, absolutley:001_smile:

 

Are you talking to me or to yourself? Only yanking your chain (as per). As soon as I saw the article I knew what your response would be. Some might say that's why I posted it...

 

But the real work is in the field, thats where it gets tricky to prove it, any tips?

 

Baby steps - much more lab work to be done. As the paper says, the precise mechanism of communication hasn't been identified yet. Besides, it isn't tricky to take lab work out into the field, it happens everyday - the radio told me this morning that a chap has just had some stem cells crammed into his brain. It does however, take time and money. From theory to lab to field to wider application, someone has to pay (in this case the agricultural industry?). Its certainly tricky for us at the end of the chain to see the whole picture and science tends towards achingly slow incrementalism (baby steps). Revolutions are few and far between, much to media disappointment.

 

As for tips - I heard Kuhnian paradigm in the four fifty at Catterick is a sure thing.

[David Humphries]

As for tips - I heard Kuhnian paradigm in the four fifty at Catterick is a sure thing.

 

Got me all excited there for a mo Mr S, thought you may have had some good insider knowledge from the stable.

 

Then realised there ain't no racing at Catterick until December

 

 

 

.........regarding the science, this is something that I really need to get onboard more with. We certainly have the oportunity & the willing, just need to extend some feelers out in to the matrix.

 

Had an interesting half day down at Alice Holt last week, and am hopeful of exploring one or two avenues of research from that.

 

 

Most of what I do is really observational & anecdotal at best.

 

 

 

Need to go get me my very own Phd gimp

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You behave mr D!

 

as for tony s, i kinda realised you might be yanking my chain as such, would be most unlike you to be so rude about our eminent academic mr........