This Underground Economy Exists in a Secret Fungi Kingdom
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- We now have a new understanding of the underground ecosystem. It turns out that fungi barter and trade with other organisms like little stockbrokers.
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New research has revealed that fungi barter and trade with other organisms, meaning there’s basically an entire economy of nutrients right beneath our feet that we are only just uncovering.
Possibly the most widely distributed organisms on Earth, fungi exist everywhere on Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole.
Fungi take elements like carbon that are trapped in organic matter, and through decomposition, process and release them back into the ecosystem for other organisms to use. Fungi do this by releasing a cocktail of enzymes and other helpful chemicals that allow them to break down organic material outside of their bodies so they can more easily digest the nutrients...this is how fungi cause decay.
But the thing is, fungi are more than just their essential role as nutrient cyclers-fungi that work with plants in this way can grow into structures called hyphae, or delicate thread-like tendrils that push into a plants’ roots forming mycorrhizae. Mycorrhizae are symbiotic relationships that exist between fungi and the plants they glom on to.
In exchange for the essential nutrients that fungi provide for the plants, plants in return, form carbohydrates through photosynthesis and provide fungi with sugars creating a worldwide network of nutrient exchanges that occur between all kinds of microbes. The whole system is known as the Wood Wide Web.
And a research team in Amsterdam recently found that these nutrient exchanges might operate almost like an economy.
Learn more about this underground economy in the secret fungi kingdom on this episode of Elements.
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I like how you bring across the information nahhh i think its just you
Why are you linked to the hate group now this??????!!!!!!?????
Also read Paul Stamets and watch his JRE appearance, he’s only been talking about this for years and years...
You can pronounce it as gmfung-ai and fun-Jee. But only one is correct. You dont pronounce cacti as cact-Tee. This is just an excuse.
Edit: for more context in order for Fun-jee to be grammatically acceptable, Fun-jus also has to be acceptable.
"Wood Wide Web" where Firewalls are truly feared.
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Yes!!!! Such a great comment!!!!
Firewalls are also 100% Effective to Blocking by squeezing the Connection
You can Crash The Economy by just several squeezes
Seeker : we found an underground economist
Ant : Am I joke to you?
What about economist?
Termite???
Damn! The ants actually grow some strains! They got economy
Ants are communists, fungi are capitalists
@@mr.personhumanson6871 Damn you're right
How much room does this fungi economy need to grow?
As mushroom as possible.
NGL I chucked
Nice.
Dad?
You seem to be a fun-guy
That. Is yes. Thank you.
Sounds like the trees on Pandora in the movie Avatar
Pandora isn’t far from reality. Look up Pando, one of Earths largest organisms.
*looks
This is what I commented yesterday on the post talking about today's video.
That’s where james Cameron got the idea from lol
Most fantasy movies revolve around some truths and discoveries in science. Bridging a radical new find into a pop culture film is an easy way to ease people into new perspectives.
Finally some Biology, i was oversaturated with Physics and engineering!
Right!!
But there's a lot of physics there 😁
@@caldasvictor There's a lot of nature engineering things too.
Oversaturated with Physics?
Boy you are weak
@@maxwellsequation4887 screw you
Telling me there's a mushroom out there asking to buy a mushroom girlfriend for 200 phosphorus?
Lmfao
69 phosphorus*
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Spiceboy Juggernaut
🤣
Lmaooooo
So how's his personality?
He's such a Fun Gi
[Insert another funny fungi joke here]
Kwahi ?
Plant: Sends a lot of sugar
Fungi: STONKS
My first meme creation:
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Ahh man you beat me to it.
I think the same too lol.
"researcher in Amsterdam studying fungi"
Dang what are the chances ;D
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They studying hearbs too. The Cheech and chong strain is of a pertetliur research instrest.
@@bobbg9041 I study herbs on a daily basis ;)
*A world-wide-web that's in the soil!*
It's through the Hyphae, that Earth is like mythological Pandora. _How awesome!_
Its stranger than we can suppose
Imagine that there's some lab looking into using these for quantum computing and advanced encryption possibilities.
@@electroncommerce quantum computing?? How would that work?
Miceilul network connects universes together. Engage the spore drive.
Paul Stamets uhhh consulted on StarTrek hence the myco tek
When we humans destroy forests...we are destroying far much more 😣
It's ok, fungus bites back =)
Check out recent fungal infections sprouting up
We spark fungi economic crashes in the stalk market.
@@2drealms196 lmaoo
@@2drealms196 They also do it to us as payback, when smuts and rusts infect our crops lol
This spring I experimented with hugelkultur. Instead of yard clippings I used forest floor litter and some kitchen waste that just began to grew fungi. The end result this fall was the most bountiful tomato harvest I’ve ever had since I started gardening 6 years ago, even more bountiful compared with compost alone or fertilizer alone.
Even more amazing that we associate "mold" as something wholly detrimental in agriculture... "Mold" is literally mother nature, the dynamo that fuels the natural world. Literally all established knowledge of biology is based upon a false premise. How humbling that is... Now you must ask: what implications that have on our food supply? Much of our food is now being grown either isolated from the fungus [commercial agriculture] or completely devoid of it [aquaponics]. i bet this has implications on our health as a society, that we cannot even begin to comprehend.
Paul Stamets has been talking about this for a long time.
New research has revealed?
Guess Paul Stamets doesn’t exist.
Biology truly is beautiful
Nobody:
Mushroom Version of Khawi Leonard: I'm a Fungi
Fascinating content perfectly presented. I love this channel!
Hmm us indigenous peoples know everything is alive .. the Forrest can see you. It can hear you and know your intentions before you do ... Microbiology is just rediscovering the mechanisms in which it dose so .. this channel is amazing .. thanks
The expanded description sounded like fungi were playing the biggest, oldest game of Catan in history. "Hyphae seeking to trade essential nutrients for sugars."
I want to become a mycologist
Praise our new fungi overlord !
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Amazingly informative video as usual. So glad I subbed to keep up with this magic.
p.s. I, for one, am here for Maren being spicy with the takes: 0:14 & 1:53
I'm a vegetable grower and use the no dig method. I feed the soil and never disturb it. The fungi do the real work with the relationship between the plants I grow. So I feed the fungi and the fungi do all the fertilizing. The plants grow like they are on steroids and don't get bothered by pests half as much. If you want more info on no dig, check out Charles dowding.
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Everyone's being such a Fun-Gi with all those "Fun-Gi" comments
fun-gay
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Awesome vids so far. Very interesting stuff!
This is absolutely amazing to know.. I never knew this was even a thing
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Absolutely fascinating!
Thanks for the video! This is really interesting!
Great video. I've always found mushrooms super interesting but I never realized how complex fungus actually is.
This reminds me of the movie "Dr. suess horton hears a who".
The way you explain always mesmerizes me.
Interesting video. Good job, Maren.
Actually mind blowing
Seen and learned about this from a video about "Paul Stamets" a few years ago.
Also he found out that Bee's harvest a liquid from fungi in decaying wood, after testing samples he found that the liquid was very high in antibiotic and antiviral compounds, he figures its a way for Bee's/hive to bolster their immune system.
Absolutely fascinating
0:33 Aspergillus what now?
It's used to form vinegar
Found in the country Niger, I'd assume. (Also its pronounced Nee-jair, soft j)
@@fureversalty got it, soft j, not hard r
W... what?
This channel lighting setup is amazing keep on the good work
I hope I could do one like it some day
Fascinating!
That was an awesome demonstration... 🤙...
Missed this, I did, until now.
Yes, it is communication you describe, among other things. Keep highlighting more discoveries about our world we could have understood long ago were humans not so self-absorbed and swollen headed.
Brilliant!
Great video
brilliant!
Super interesting
I bet Terence McKenna is one happy man right now
Terence Knew This Years Ago
@@flashpointparadox9909 oh, at most he considered it. Nobody knew this until these scientists made the discovery
@@drhoneybadger Yh but he always used to talk about it and explain it so it was more than a guess at least
The Hidden Life of Trees is a great book that discusses these points in depth
0:40 is there a chicken with a hat behind these really interesting mushrooms?
I have a friend that is a mushroom..... He's a really fun guy
Lol
He's really a fun guy. There I fixed it for you.
@@dginx There was nothing to fix, though.
@Yowatsapp 05 sure.. I guess lol
@@Veldaren If you guys are laughing at a period I wonder if you will loose it when you really see the difference.
It’s as if the fungi are the elders setting the example of how we should treat our resources of nutrients. It’s a give and take relationship. We shouldn’t take from the earth without giving back a fair trade. It’s time to go back to our roots and reestablish the symbiotic relationships we once had with this planet.
Very cool they have a Wallstreet underground. Mutualism at its finest even if it is reactionary and not complex abstract thought.
Very cool
Interesting!
These michorizae can actually break rocks and feed it to trees. They are amazing!
They appear to be a critical part of an ecosystem. That likely has implications for colonizing other planets or building self-sustaining space habitats.
I think that ecosystem engineering is one of the trickiest and least well understood problems facing these endeavors.
Having watched ST Discovery really peaked my interest with this video🖖🏼
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So many networks, the trend of "PLANT A TREE" isn't working because we aren't allowing this relationship between plant & fungi network to build up. A soil with that many networks is the key
This video was so cool 😎 👍
Fungus also has cellular intelligence which allows it to find the most efficient route to food sources inside of mazes or complex tunneling
i remember learning about this in Organismal Biology
Speaking as an arborist, I often say that mycorrhizae are the secret to tree success that should not be a secret. Thank you for this video!
Just have to say wow!
Came back to this video after seeing the slime mold video. Please more about mycelium and molds
I wonder if the intricacies of symbiosis on the micro level are because of simplicity or time. I wonder if macro organisms that already have a symbiotic partner can become so intertwined in times to come.
This web is also inside our body starting with sinus. Daily (mostly at night) fungus gets in our nose and digestive and respiratory mucosa and trigers inflamation but our immune system keeps it at check with peroxide.
Thanks, very interesting. Do you have the link for the paper that you mentioned in the last part? Thanks!
Are there any reports or papers on fungal network computing? I imagine a specially designed, perhaps 3d printed soil cube saturated with nutrients and microrhizae with standardised computer outputs and inputs.
I know it wouldn't match the kind of computing power as traditional computers but it could make for an interesting replacement that may be more radiation resistant or perhaps even provide an organically fuelled artificial intelligence?
Anyway, wild sci fi speculation aside, if anyone has any papers or reports of this stuff then I'm happy to receive your replies. Thanks
From what I understand they have something similar.
The "Barter and Trade" action(s) aren't truly what fungi are doing necessarily in this film, but the model of "Bartering and Trading" is possibly a "back and forth transfer with andor without any "evaluation" by the fungi itself".
Where's the link towards that research please?
I played this for my middle school science students when we were studying "decomposers"...I say that in quotations because Fungi are so much more than that
“Researchers discovered...”
should be
“Some guys tripping balls discovered...”
What's the diffrence?
The ones not tripping balls are boring?
I’m guessing that growing fungi will be a huge industry for agriculture, maximizing outputs on land that has been overly worked. Ploughing a paddock will become a rare event and fungi will be purchased like fertilizer. #justsaying love your channel.
This is the coolest and trippiest video to stumble upon after eating some delectable edibles. THnks yooo
Poor old Fungi, gone but not forgotten! (Benefit Street)
I'm in love with the host ...
pretty adorably dorky isn't she? I love it.
More more more please my brain is hungry for this info nutrient..!
They are like middlemen that trade the nutrients from decomposing organic matter and turn it into a form of food for the roots of plants. Pretty neat.
so how long till we can hop from place to place using the Mycelial network?
Seeing those networks makes me think of neurons forming connections
Imagine if there was some life form that was just a massive intelligence growing underground
It's almost like the forest operates on a free market without the need of oversight and dictation.
Im going fungee jumping this weekend.
It is the underground internet, it brings nutrients to hungry plants. It does this to make the forest thrive for it to thrive. I am always happy to see soil with white mycellium, the white fuzz. It assists my gardens.
most resilient organism on earth
I like how she’s wearing a trippy shirt 😂
Wow!
Wood Wide Web - I cracked up. Both nature and scientists are geniuses.
This is amazing! 🤩 It's basically like Pandora from Avatar.
This is random but does anyone know the thing where you place three dots randomly and I think you have to repeat it? And then after a while of doing that you get a cool pattern.
My favorite fungi is the Aspergillus niger and it can be seen at 0:34
Fascinating
~ Spock
You can't be a fun guy without fungi
WOW !!!
Fungi aren't business partners. They're overlords, holding the trees hostage and making a shotgun deal. "Give me what I want, and I'll give you this, or I'll kill you." That's pretty much how it goes down.
The change in direction of nutrient flow could be creating energy via multiple biological processes. Can mycorrhiza and plants create a net positive energy exchange by passing nutrients back and forth? Where are the biochemist when you need them?
Fungi is crazy, theres this function with fungi called mycelium web, when you look at the web it looks like the universal web!
What’s the total fungal GDP?
11 quadrillion nutrients (2020)
0:34 Aspergillus N iger
Year 3000 first millionaire fungi
Fungi : it's all for sugar baby
Micro risal is my secret ingredient for my amazing garden