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World Service,2 mins

Fungal highways let plants communicate

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Fungal ecologist Merlin Sheldrake reveals how plants secretly talk, trade and make allies. (Image:The spreading mycelia of the sulphur tuft fungus. Credit: Cardiff University Fungal Ecology Research Group)

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