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University of Toronto

Plant-yeast

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For the study, Lumba and her fellow researchers investigated why and how fungi respond to SLs. Eighty per cent of plants rely on this symbiotic relationship, and enhancing the interaction with beneficial fungi could lead to hardier crops and higher crop yield, reducing the need for fertilizers. This in turn would reduce phosphate runoff into water systems and lower the production of greenhouse gases.

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Bradley et al., 2024, Molecular Cell 84, 1–17

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