Plants are great, but most of our plants can't survive without a special relationship they have with fungi! Which fungi, you ask, Mycorrhizal Fungi! Not sure how to pronounce that word, Mycorrhizal? Listen in to this episode with Dr Adam Frew who is a lover of all fungi and tells us all about what this type of fungi is and why it is so important.

Dr Adam Frew is a Research Fellow at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Behavioural Biology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, before moving to Australia for his PhD in Ecology.

Things to check out from this episode:

• How fungi help plants communicate
• What is mycelium
• What is a carbon store
• Molecular biology explanation
• DNA barcoding

Episode transcript: coming soon.

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