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Welcome to the Cannabis Cultivation and Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Tad Hussey, Kiss Organics.

This is the podcast where we discuss the cutting edge of growing from a science-based perspective

and drawn top experts from around the industry to share their wisdom of knowledge.

This week's topic, microizal fungi.

Yeah. Microrizal fungi. By now, practically everyone has heard of microisal fungi.

It's pretty incredible fungus that forms a symbiotic relationship with the roots

of many plants.

But I see a lot of misinformation and claims out there about it, and I thought it would be a good topic to dive into.

After checking this out, if you want to learn more, I do have a blog post on our website at www.k-I-S-Organics.com under the Learn tab, or just type M-Y-C-O, into the search tab, scroll down, and you'll see

the blog post, as well in an interview I did in episode 77 with Dr. Yoram Kipulnich, who is an expert

researcher on microisal fungi.

I first heard about microisal fungi from my dear friend, Jeff Lowenfels.

He's always been great at sharing exciting new findings in the microbial world and his most

recent book, Teeming with bacteria, talks about rhizophagy, a much more recent discovery about

how bacteria can travel into root cells by infecting the cells at the root tip merestim.

Once inside the root, these bacteria lose their cell walls

and essentially leak nutrients inside the plant before leaving again through the root tips,

reforming their cell walls, again in the risosphere, and cycling over and over again as a way of

creating nutrient cycling for the plant. But mycorrhizyl fungi wasn't a recent discovery. The relationship

between fungi and plant roots was written about as early as 1885, and new research over the

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