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fungi transporting substances long distances

 
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I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that they gave some sort of traceable substance (maybe it was cesium?) to a plant in one spot and several days later it could be detected in plants up to twenty feet away.

First off, I think this is super cool.

Secondly, I can't seem to find the link now. Can someone find it and post it here?
 
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One study used radioactive iodine and found a fungal induced transference of 100m plant to plant, and the receiver plant was a child of the plant which was the test subject, they even had entwined roots and shared the same ectomycorrhizae hyphae.

first one found

NCIB paper

Cornell PDF paper

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