Crazy. I used to do a presentation in classroom called "forest, fungi, and flying squirrels." I talked about the importance of mycorrhizal fungus with the cunning use of props and costumes. I didn't get anywhere near this in depth. I didn't even know it was this amazing.
The thing that annoys me about many of the explanations in the video is that it's way too plant-centric, and makes it seem like fungi are just inert wires through which plants communicate. Fungi are very much active partners in the relationships. In fact, it actually makes more sense to say that they're sort of managing the forest by using the surplus from certain trees and investing it in other trees so that they have a steady supply of carbon (sugars) throughout the year. Even the mother-daughter trees can be explained by what benefits the fungus. It makes sense to invest more resources on the daughters of the trees you already know are compatible with you (since you already have a relationship with them). It doesn't make as much sense to say that the trees are somehow making the fungus preferentially allocate its resources to the tree's relatives, since that would imply that the tree somehow knows not just which trees are connected to the fungus, but that it somehow knows the genetic makeup of the other tree .... THROUGH the fungus. That just makes no sense. The fungi are the main players in this, and I feel like the video really failed to show this.
+David Enrique Interesting point. This is how many scientists working in the area explain the relationship, but that might just be because we understand less about the fungus at this point. I'm going to pass on your comment to one of the researchers I spoke with and see what she says. That said, I wouldn't discount the idea that the plants can actually tell who they are related to and that they may be mediating the flow of sugars to their relatives. Certain experiments have been done growing sibling plants and non-sibling plants in a fungal network in the lab (the plants are all the same species, and the fungus can form relationships with all the individuals at the same time.) Turns out that the plants contribute more sugars to the network when they're planted next to their siblings. I'm not saying this isn't still driven by the fungus's needs, but in this case, it's not as simple as just forming connections and sharing with a known partner. Does that make sense? Interested to hear your thoughts.
Love your videos, Anna! Building on David's point: it would be interesting (if there is enough information) to do an episode from the fungus' perspective! How did / does the fungus spread, were the 'foundations' of these networks laid millions of years ago or are they more recent (eg after Ice age) and still expanding? Are there different distinct types /networks of fungi suited to different environments, or some traveling along the WWW network and 'interbreding'? What do they gain from passing along (or blocking) nutrients to/from trees? Why do they sometimes help struggling plants and sometimes block nutrients from them? is it even about the plants, or more about helping (or not!) fungi attached to those plants?
I agree with David on this one. Saying the trees can send each other warning of danger is a reach. This would mean that trees have some level of intellegance and enable some sort of free will and also would mean that they can understand or decode the message or warning. I think it's simply a reaction to whatever enzimes are relaeased by the bugs etc.. Just because we don't understand which enzimes or reaction to it doesn't mean they suddenly now posses a level of intelect. This is not science and is a littile anoying because they always make assumptions like this and all logic goes out of the window. Trees do not have a brain or mind they do not poses intentionality and therefore can not " send warnings about danger". This is lazy science, just like AI and then the Chinese room experiment that disporves AI as being contious.
Plants sing songs to insects & birds & each other! In AUSTRALIA a study was done in how plants defend themselves from locust plague, it was discovered that plants send out a chemical/sonic signal alert when under attack from herbivore insects & before the insects can consume all of them some build up a toxin in their sap and become none consumable to them!
the fungi also can't see a danger approaching a plant connected to another plant by the fungi but this doesn't give them less time to defend each other because the attack on the invaders wipes them out quickly
I've been with this channel since about the start, and in all of this time I've never thought to ask, how do you make your sound effects? Do you have an idea of what you want and try to make that sound, do you just make random sounds, do you use props or things to make the sounds? I'm suddenly really curious.
Thanks for the question! I thought a lot about the sfx in this video, so I'm glad you noticed. I do make some random sounds myself, and also use stuff I find in my office. But there is also a great site called freesound.org where people upload sounds under creative commons licenses, so I find lots of sfx there, too.
How funny. I'm in the middle of reading "The Hidden Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben. He goes into a chapter talking about how Trees use the fungi in order to communicate. It's crazy. I recommend the book. It's opened my eyes to whole new world.
Leafy:Hey Loggy Loggy:Hi Leafy:How ya doin'? I'm fine. Loggy:Fine too Leafy:Wait.. How are we communicating? Loggy: I Dunno. Leafy:I guess it's a mystery Loggy: Yeah... Wait what's that over there! Leafy:It's just a little kid with a beard Loggy: Wait what did you say?! Leafy: Kid with beard, why? Loggy: Don't you see what you're saying! Leafy:OMG! What!?! Loggy:He's coming towards us!!😱 Weird baby:Yo I need to shave my beard. Also can you give me a cup of wine? Both Loggy and Leafy:WTF. We're outta here. Let's die together!
We already know that a diverse garden is a much healthier and more productive garden. Monoculture can be a real mess, mayhaps it has something to do with the fungi.
What happens to fungal networks when humans get involved: when we till the soil for agriculture, clear cut forests, or even build a road through an existing forest/fungal network?
Nature always had a connection we yearned for. Invented the wheel, and set sail for. And now as we created the internet, if it is only now we hear mother Gaia echo throughout times we hear it now as we drum the battle drums and call for her extinction.
Wow! I always kind of felt this! How weird is that???? I live in a very wooded region, and I always felt like the plants were communicating! To this day, me and my friend play "the tree game" (rough translation) where we sit very still and eat chocolate coated peanuts, but one has to feed the other moving very slowly. It takes like 1 full minute to bring the peanut to the other's mouth and the same to return the hand to the bowl. We can talk, but slowly, and making our "plant voices"; we pretend we are plants speaking to one another. The game sometimes lasts hours. Anyone reading this probably think it's the dumbest game they've ever heard of, and it may very well be, but there's something that feels really right when we impersonate plants. Even if the world is all electronic, we still feel connected to nature when we play the game (at least I do. I'm gonna talk about it with my friend tomorrow).
Very important to know these "laws of nature," minute as they are. I have lots of questions. No doubt this is a lifelong study! But I've seen aerial infrared photos of Asian desert areas where olive groves grew 2000 years ago. The trees are no longer there, but the "footprint" of the root systems of the trees are still visible in rows of circles, where the roots were, from this infrared method of photography. This means that the mychorrhyzae (sp?) leave their impact in the ground for many, many years.
I'm studying About kingdom mycota and in that chapter I have a topic "mycorizae" and this video really help me in understanding and visualizing that topic
I bet plants have better service than I do.
Julius Toledo XD How bad is your wifi then?!
Lol
You have to pay for it, too.
Crazy. I used to do a presentation in classroom called "forest, fungi, and flying squirrels." I talked about the importance of mycorrhizal fungus with the cunning use of props and costumes. I didn't get anywhere near this in depth. I didn't even know it was this amazing.
What? 🤔
Need more info about that presentation
I KNEW IT! LEAFY WAS CYBERBULLYING MY TREE!!!!!!
The Boredom Cure it's kinda funny 😸
such funny much lol
plz don't linch me for using ded memes
I very english
The Boredom Cure lol
XD
It's jood to know how jreat we are at pronouncing Funji.
CaveGent Joe for u
Fun Guy
This isn't gross. This is awesome!
This is grossome!
This is my new favorite word.
I agree
stop
@@bigsk8743 who?
This is one of the coolest things I have learned about in a long time.
I'm so glad, Mara!
This has got to be the most mind blowing information I've heard in a decade!
Arboreal altruism? So cool.
Right?! It's my new favorite topic.
It's Okay To Be Smart Aren't this the channel about science related to space?? Man plz do a video on what happens when one is inside of a black hole!
Gross Science
LMAOO
@@VivekYadav-ds8oz LMAOO
The thing that annoys me about many of the explanations in the video is that it's way too plant-centric, and makes it seem like fungi are just inert wires through which plants communicate. Fungi are very much active partners in the relationships. In fact, it actually makes more sense to say that they're sort of managing the forest by using the surplus from certain trees and investing it in other trees so that they have a steady supply of carbon (sugars) throughout the year.
Even the mother-daughter trees can be explained by what benefits the fungus. It makes sense to invest more resources on the daughters of the trees you already know are compatible with you (since you already have a relationship with them). It doesn't make as much sense to say that the trees are somehow making the fungus preferentially allocate its resources to the tree's relatives, since that would imply that the tree somehow knows not just which trees are connected to the fungus, but that it somehow knows the genetic makeup of the other tree .... THROUGH the fungus. That just makes no sense.
The fungi are the main players in this, and I feel like the video really failed to show this.
+David Enrique Interesting point. This is how many scientists working in the area explain the relationship, but that might just be because we understand less about the fungus at this point. I'm going to pass on your comment to one of the researchers I spoke with and see what she says.
That said, I wouldn't discount the idea that the plants can actually tell who they are related to and that they may be mediating the flow of sugars to their relatives. Certain experiments have been done growing sibling plants and non-sibling plants in a fungal network in the lab (the plants are all the same species, and the fungus can form relationships with all the individuals at the same time.) Turns out that the plants contribute more sugars to the network when they're planted next to their siblings. I'm not saying this isn't still driven by the fungus's needs, but in this case, it's not as simple as just forming connections and sharing with a known partner. Does that make sense? Interested to hear your thoughts.
Love your videos, Anna! Building on David's point: it would be interesting (if there is enough information) to do an episode from the fungus' perspective! How did / does the fungus spread, were the 'foundations' of these networks laid millions of years ago or are they more recent (eg after Ice age) and still expanding? Are there different distinct types /networks of fungi suited to different environments, or some traveling along the WWW network and 'interbreding'? What do they gain from passing along (or blocking) nutrients to/from trees? Why do they sometimes help struggling plants and sometimes block nutrients from them? is it even about the plants, or more about helping (or not!) fungi attached to those plants?
David Enrique she didn't fail to show this, in fact she made it very clear.
David Enrique man yoi are being to pc.
I agree with David on this one. Saying the trees can send each other warning of danger is a reach. This would mean that trees have some level of intellegance and enable some sort of free will and also would mean that they can understand or decode the message or warning. I think it's simply a reaction to whatever enzimes are relaeased by the bugs etc.. Just because we don't understand which enzimes or reaction to it doesn't mean they suddenly now posses a level of intelect. This is not science and is a littile anoying because they always make assumptions like this and all logic goes out of the window. Trees do not have a brain or mind they do not poses intentionality and therefore can not " send warnings about danger". This is lazy science, just like AI and then the Chinese room experiment that disporves AI as being contious.
Plants sing songs to insects & birds & each other! In AUSTRALIA a study was done in how plants defend themselves from locust plague, it was discovered that plants send out a chemical/sonic signal alert when under attack from herbivore insects & before the insects can consume all of them some build up a toxin in their sap and become none consumable to them!
Plant 1: tell plant 2 I love her!!
Fungi: ok
Plant 2: tell plant 1 I love him too!
Fungi: ok
Wood wide web xD
@LagiNaLangAko23 oh the impossibility
Www lol
This blows my mind, I can't believe how connected trees are o_o
Oh god, that means that awful movie, "The Happening", may have actually been on to something kind of real?!?
i didn't even think about this now im going to have a long hard think, and reevaluate my life
BRUXXUS
Nooooooooooooooooo
I feel embarrassed I didn't know this already...
Don't feel embarrassed! There's still a lot about the relationship that even scientists have yet to learn.
how many js does the word fungi have?
But can they watch cat videos? Humans-1 Plants-0. XD
trees make our oxygen they win 🌴🍃🌵
Daisy Daze actually it comes from the ocean's plankton
your actually both right
diatoms make about the half of it,then euglenas,cyanobacteria and other plastid creatures do it and then plants and trees.
the fungi also can't see a danger approaching a plant connected to another plant by the fungi but this doesn't give them less time to defend each other because the attack on the invaders wipes them out quickly
This makes me love nature even more
Some plants are addicted to Forestnite
and the word "Dark oak" is banned in their internet
In some forests it's said that a single mushroom's mycorrhizal network can exceed the entire forest above it in mass.
Very cool Anna! This video was one of my favorite and you are definitely improving with your productions. Keep the gross coming!
Thank you!
Gross Science I think this video is much gross
Gross Science there is nothing gross today
Eat oant
Have scientists discovered wood wide web flame wars yet?
Ha!
Awesome! All the more reason to preserve biodiversity in forests.
Love the background music as much as the presentation.... So peaceful
I've been with this channel since about the start, and in all of this time I've never thought to ask, how do you make your sound effects? Do you have an idea of what you want and try to make that sound, do you just make random sounds, do you use props or things to make the sounds? I'm suddenly really curious.
Thanks for the question! I thought a lot about the sfx in this video, so I'm glad you noticed. I do make some random sounds myself, and also use stuff I find in my office. But there is also a great site called freesound.org where people upload sounds under creative commons licenses, so I find lots of sfx there, too.
Great video 👍 Why do you pronounce fungal correctly but fungi badly (funji)?
I had heard before about the realtionships between trees, but never knew it was so deep! Mind opening!
Incredible! Thank you so much for sharing this video. It was truly fascinating!
I'm so glad you liked it!
Reminds me of that movie where trees kill us using signals.
Fascinating! It's more of "interesting" than "gross". I wonder what kind of communication dioecious trees would have using these kind fungi.
Cooperation is every bit as crucial to a species' survival as competition.
Wow. Very interesting. I wonder how this works for plants on flowerpots or hydroponics. Are we isolating them? Great video.
How funny. I'm in the middle of reading "The Hidden Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben. He goes into a chapter talking about how Trees use the fungi in order to communicate. It's crazy. I recommend the book. It's opened my eyes to whole new world.
Leafy:Hey Loggy
Loggy:Hi
Leafy:How ya doin'? I'm fine.
Loggy:Fine too
Leafy:Wait.. How are we communicating?
Loggy: I Dunno.
Leafy:I guess it's a mystery
Loggy: Yeah... Wait what's that over there!
Leafy:It's just a little kid with a beard
Loggy: Wait what did you say?!
Leafy: Kid with beard, why?
Loggy: Don't you see what you're saying!
Leafy:OMG! What!?!
Loggy:He's coming towards us!!😱
Weird baby:Yo I need to shave my beard. Also can you give me a cup of wine?
Both Loggy and Leafy:WTF. We're outta here. Let's die together!
Random but delightful information you didn't knew you need
Wooden it be cool to be nice to be a tree?
We already know that a diverse garden is a much healthier and more productive garden. Monoculture can be a real mess, mayhaps it has something to do with the fungi.
this was a really neat topic! wood you make another one someday?
Didn't know about the fungi network, this is really awesome!! (And, let me say this, the least gross from your videos, but extraordinary as always 👍👍)
3:40 I think you should grow the forest back the way it was and not cut it down again
piggymeowmeow preach
THANK YOU TREES!
What happens to fungal networks when humans get involved: when we till the soil for agriculture, clear cut forests, or even build a road through an existing forest/fungal network?
Why are some Mushrooms edible as well as some Snails and not so much some others? Great show by the way. I do learn a lot.
This is some crazy cross-species cooperation. Nice episode
DJBsLectures cRoSs sPeCiEs
@@abadlydrawnsnowman1648 Why are you being weird about that word.
@@thinginground5179 I've forgotten, my comment was two years ago...
Amazingly true!
This is how plants use the Internet
awesome idea
Nature always had a connection we yearned for. Invented the wheel, and set sail for. And now as we created the internet, if it is only now we hear mother Gaia echo throughout times we hear it now as we drum the battle drums and call for her extinction.
I loved this one. Also this is what the movie Avatar was based on. Lately 4 some reason, I've been feeling like everything is connected in some way.
Wow! I always kind of felt this! How weird is that???? I live in a very wooded region, and I always felt like the plants were communicating! To this day, me and my friend play "the tree game" (rough translation) where we sit very still and eat chocolate coated peanuts, but one has to feed the other moving very slowly. It takes like 1 full minute to bring the peanut to the other's mouth and the same to return the hand to the bowl. We can talk, but slowly, and making our "plant voices"; we pretend we are plants speaking to one another. The game sometimes lasts hours. Anyone reading this probably think it's the dumbest game they've ever heard of, and it may very well be, but there's something that feels really right when we impersonate plants. Even if the world is all electronic, we still feel connected to nature when we play the game (at least I do. I'm gonna talk about it with my friend tomorrow).
Great video. Random question for you: how do spiders walk upside down?
HOW DID I MISS THIS
do different types of trees use the fungal web more than others and are their trees that don't use it? and can you use GM to make the web bigger?
Black Walnut Tree:"Eat mein poison HAHAHAHAHAHA LELELELELELE ROFLCOTER"
Wow, that's so cool; it's a _living, breathing_ ''thing''. You don't see that often with concrete, and things of this nature.
they may evolve to form firewalls, moderators, and maybe create their own dank memes.
this was on the sat
It is like Eywa's network in Pandora!
it's like in avatar but not on pandora :O
Hello Anna! This is an excellent video and well -not so gross! Thank you for this most interesting and thought provoking video.
Bob.
I have a movie idea. About plants talking to each other.
Does every forest have such connections between the trees and fungi?
Beautiful
Very important to know these "laws of nature," minute as they are. I have lots of questions. No doubt this is a lifelong study! But I've seen aerial infrared photos of Asian desert areas where olive groves grew 2000 years ago. The trees are no longer there, but the "footprint" of the root systems of the trees are still visible in rows of circles, where the roots were, from this infrared method of photography. This means that the mychorrhyzae (sp?) leave their impact in the ground for many, many years.
More people need to see this
I love how plants are just like us humans, some evil and some kind and generous
What if we use plants instead of phones hmmm..
the first second of this video i knew it was the best place on youtube for me C:
I didn't even consider any of these things!😱😱👏🏻👍🏻💚 Thank you so much for sharing this! 👏🏻
The fungi are smarter than pbs
Basically fungus likes to play Plants vs Plants.
I just read all about this interesting phenomenon in The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Wohlleben.
Who remembers reading about this on the SAT
I'm studying About kingdom mycota and in that chapter I have a topic "mycorizae" and this video really help me in understanding and visualizing that topic
OMG this is so amazing
*bush gets text from tree
send leafless pics
Those fungus are commented in a movie called Strange magic
01:45 gave me goosebumps
Can my Orhidea and my another flower communicate with each other if they are in tile? Both has own one.
this video halped me so much with my biology test
Plants seem much nicer than the average human on the internet.
wow this is so interesting!
Can this mycelium network transport spaceships across the galaxy in the blink of an eye?
Scientists: *discover a literal internet in between plants*
Scientists: *make a really bad pun*
neighbour tree killed my baby plant
First hacking the Internet then hacking the Wood Wide Web.
Ah so that's where those dislikes come from. Salty plants on the internet xD
Hehe.... 'Fungle' :)))
Fungi is throatalling my tree! Damn you FCC!
Science is finally figuring out how much you & I; The World is connected ! Welcome to Earth Wide Web of Life ! Opening your 3rd Eye !
the powers of symbiosis can be infinite
135,562 views, 4k likes, *308 comments*. Seems legit
Biomimicry.... you are going to love it =)
Awesome!
can it work with phones or tablets
That's so cool
ITS PRONOUNCED FUN-GUY
amazing! thanks
I had heard that all of the Aspens are connected.
Watch out for cyber bullying using mushrooms 🍄!