A bee pollinating a squash flower Roman K媒bus/Alamy
Plants treated with diverse species of fungi that live on roots grew larger flowers, prompting bees to visit them more often and spend more time there.
鈥淸These fungi] might not only have benefits for the plant itself, or for the soil, but also for the pollinators,鈥 says at Stanford University in California.
Guzman and her colleagues grew squash plants (Cucurbita pepo) inoculated with four combinations of different species of mycorrhizal fungi. These fungi live on…
