Bees pollinating pumpkin flowers
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Treating the plants with different types of root-dwelling fungi led to larger flowers and bees to visit the plants more often and spend more time there.
“[These fungi]may benefit not only the plants themselves and the soil, but also pollinators,” says Aidy Guzman from Stanford University in California.
Guzman and her colleagues grew pumpkin plants (pepo pumpkin) were inoculated with four combinations of mycorrhizal fungi of different species. These fungi continue to live…
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