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A Scottish company is helping to regrow forests with specially made mushroom pellets, using the “superpowers” of fungi.Teams from Rhizocore Technologies are collecting samples of fungi from around the world, with the goal of curating Earth’s largest library of fungal specimens.Their product, a small rectangular grey pellet, helps tree-planting projects succeed in ground which may lack the appropriate fungus in the soil – boosting chances of forests regrowing.

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00:00We're using a kind of peristaltic pump-based method to basically.
00:12If we just put like a liquid in or we just dumped, say 40 different species,
00:17very UK-based species that we've tested and we're looking for basically.
00:21The fungi that we put in these pellets are a weird group of fungi that are known as the mycorrhizae.
00:27And that means that these are basically fungi that form a mutual beneficial relationship with our trees.
00:33And we work with the mycorrhizae that only associate with trees.
00:37And what that means is that those organisms basically provide nutrients to the trees to help their growth.
00:44And so they're increasing the growth rate of the trees.
00:47They're increasing the survival of the trees after being planted.
00:50And they're increasing the disease resistance and the drought tolerance of those trees.
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