Startup inoculates tree seedlings with wild fungus
Hunga
More than a million trees have been inoculated with native fungi by a US start-up in the hopes of making them grow faster and store more carbon, but outside researchers say it may work, but they worry it could disrupt microbial diversity in the soil.
“That’s a lot of soil, given the scale they’re talking about,” says Miranda Hart of the University of British Columbia in Canada.
The forestry industry has long experimented with ways to improve the growth of…
