ORNL Scientists Make Fundamental Discovery to Creating Better Crops (IMAGE)

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ORNL Scientists Make Fundamental Discovery to Creating Better Crops

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The fungus Laccaria bicolor, in green, is shown colonizing the root of a natural host Populus trichocarpa. A better understanding of plant-fungi symbioses could lead to engineering plant-fungal associations and improve nitrogen and nutrition uptake along with plants' resistance to drought and pathogens, according to an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led research team.

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Jessy Labbe/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy and Kevin Cope/University of Wisconsin, Madison

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