Allies in the Soil: Mycorrhizal Fungi | Dr. Adam Cobb

Today Dr. Adam Cobb joins us to talk about our allies in the soil: Mycorrhizal Fungi

Improving plant-mycorrhizal symbioses can reverse soil degradation and help regenerate our world, because mycorrhizal fungi improve host-plant nutrition and stabilize soil ecosystems. Adam’s research primarily explores how the genetics and management of grasses, from annual grain crops to perennial pastures, influence the abundance, diversity, functions, and benefits of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agroecosystems. His findings indicate that plant selective breeding can boost the growth and nutritional advantages of mycorrhizal partnership to deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits for farmers and communities around the world.

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The Soil Food Web School’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations to regenerate the soils in their communities. The Soil Food Web Approach can dramatically accelerate soil regeneration projects by focussing on the soil biome. This can boost the productivity of farms, provide super-nutritious foods, protect and purify waterways, and reduce the effects of Climate Change. No background in farming or biology is required for our Foundation Courses. Classes are online & self-paced, and students are supported by highly-trained Soil Food Web School mentors.

Over the last four decades, Dr. Elaine Ingham has advanced our knowledge of the Soil Food Web. An internationally-recognized leader in soil microbiology, Dr. Ingham has collaborated with other scientists and with farmers around the world to further our understanding of how soil organisms work together and with plants. Dr. Ingham is an author of the USDA's Soil Biology Primer and a founder of the Soil Food Web School.

00:00 Intro to Dr. Adam Cobb
05:08 Lessons from the Tallgrass Prairie
06:07 Agroecosystems
13:42 Three Different Plant Nutrition Pathways
16:23 Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
22:38 How to unleash this symbiosis

#fungi #MycorrhizalFungi #dradamcobb

[GenerousWealth]

The large information screen and small speaker photo enhances learning. Thanks

Great perspective, attitude and knowledge.

[dertythegrower]

Very important and under researched topic, especially by small farmers and large alike.

[GulliversCovers]

Amazing presentation, SFWS👍340
Looks absolutely great! Happy to be here!
Appreciate the visit, thank you so much!
All the best and have a blessed Thursday 🥰
Keep up the excellent work, Friend!

[helentc]

Really great lecture. Love your teaching & communicating style, very accessible!

[paulmageeberry]

their research found that compared to sorghum crops bred by corporate agriculture, older varieties of sorghum that can more effectively partner with them fungi generated "about a 30% gain in total human nutrition (incl increases in protein, zinc and iron)- and total yield."

[wingless]

Thanks Adam! The thing I love most about you guys @SFW School is that you bring the receipts!

[AndrewDuff-epci]

great info and makes perfect sense! Love the connection to soil health and human health.

[evilroyslade]

Thanks to your and other soil information I will now backyard garden as organically as possible. My plant roots will become equally important as my plant crop. In the past, I used fertilizers and never considered soil health.

[gaiabeleza]

Thank you so much!! Deepened my understanding of the importance of AM Fungi!! May we use your research to change our course! 🙏🏻🥳

[cannaflex]

Very knowledgeable video lived all the information and how it was broke down so I could understand as always on this channel keep these coming live them all in my garden and it's it all too you my plants are more beautiful then ever

[theresafinn]

I truly enjoyed this talk. It also supports what I’ve heard that foods today are not as nutritious as they once were.

[vladimirkragulj]

excellent lecture, thank you dr. Cobb

[erbauungstutztaufgnade]

Great video thanks. Can you make a video in which you would explain the biochemistry and microbiology in all details?

[schayban]

Thank you for the work you do! I've never sprayed any pesticides or fertilizers because common sense told me not to, then I stumbled on videos like yours later on in my life and glad I was right

[williamgibson]

Bravo! Encore! Well thought out & delivered presentation w inspiring theme & meaty (microbe-y) basis of information. Knowing of your breeding work & that some vars/strains of the commercial sorghums do NOT associate well w AMF very important as it is CLAIMED across the seed world that ALL sorghum family are exceptional associates with & propagates of AMF.

[maggarlion]

Great lecture. This yr I have been focusing primarily on eliminating weeds in my lawn and I have largely been successful. This yr I will focus on getting my soil in grerat shape.

[abutaher]

Dr. Adam Cobb is very good in Soil web. Soil web cost is very expensive, We do not have money to take class

[Lazy_Fish_Keeper]

Excellent information, however a bit disappointed in the decision to feed the stereotype of "poor, starving people" at the 8:30 mark. Majority of ecosystem degradation is generated by imperial practices of imposing mass ag practices of a handful of conglomerates, instead of allowing indigenous people to continue traditional practices that have been effective for millennia.

Yes, we have always had allies in the soil, even if "civilized" people are only starting to recognize that soil is alive. The environmental impacts of digging more than two knuckles into the soil (the original definition for which land in the US could be "ceded") will continue to impact our Can we please be more honest about how we got here? Overall a great presentation, just a little too much sugarcoating and not enough accountability on how well-intentioned scientists in the past have contributed to the climate disaster that industrial countries, comprising less than 20% of the global population, have created.

[ericagreen]

Thank you Dr. Cobb for this presentation & Soil Food Web School! My love & understanding of the importance of AM fungi has exceeded and I’m excited to pass this information to my children. The stone arch diagram is a wonderful teaching tool! I don’t exactly know much about this new topic I was introduced to or how fungi might play into it, I know it uses it somehow, but does any of what is in this presentation relate to the Shikimate Pathway?

[garybrohard]

I have seen a few people talking about mycorrhizal fungi and saying it does not benefit the brassica family. Is that true or does what you are referring to in this video help with them as well?