Mycorrhiza: The Secret Password Written in Junk DNA

Send us Fan Mail The Underground Internet: How Fungi Hack Plant DNA What if the line between one organism and another was never real to begin with? In this episode, we decode a landmark 2026 Nature Plants paper that reveals one of biology's most extraordinary secrets: how mycorrhizal fungi have been hacking plant immune systems using RNA tools built from "junk DNA" — and have been doing so for 450 million years. We explore the ancient partnership between plants and fungi that literally terraf...