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Ep. 76: Mycorenewal - Ecological Restoration, Microbial Ecology & Bioremediation (feat. Mia Maltz PhD)

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The Impact of Heavy Metals on the Plants They're Connected To

The implications of heavy metal uptake by micro-risel fungi affecting the plants they're connected to is a whole new perspective that shifts everything I know believe about the impact of heavy metals. acid digesting those mushrooms and being able to then be able to characterize what suites of elements, new metals, or otherwise are being sequestered into the fruit body. The soil chemistry as something that may play an important role in whether these metals get into the plant root cells and into the vascular system, or not. So there may be some interesting approaches to considering how we may be able to play a role in manipulating those interactions.

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