A bee pollinating a pumpkin flower
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Plants treated with several species of root-dwelling fungi grew larger flowers, encouraging bees to visit more often and spend more time there.
“(These fungi) not only have benefits for the plant or the soil, they can also have benefits for pollinators,” he says. Aidee Guzman at Stanford University in California.
Guzman and his colleagues grew pumpkin plants (Pumpkin pie) inoculated with four combinations of different species mycorrhizal fungi. These fungi live…
