Mycorrhizal Carbon™

“If we want to tackle the climate crisis, we need to address a global blindspot: the vast underground fungal networks that sequester carbon and sustain much of life on Earth.”

Merlin Sheldrake and Toby Kiers

The 2nd largest carbon sink in the world is directly under our feet.

Scientists believe agricultural soils could sequester up to 8 Gt of CO2 equivalent annually, enough to offset all emissions from the global transmission sector. While carbon is at a surplus in the air and a deficit in the soil today, mycorrhizae hold the potential to rebalance that relationship.

Grounded in science, mycorrhizae permanently sequester carbon in soil. Plants photosynthesize carbon dioxide into organic carbon, 20% of which is passed through their roots to mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. Up to 60% of all plant-derived soil organic carbon is attributed to mycorrhizae. A portion of the SOC is then sequestered permanently within recalcitrant glycoproteins that remain stable and permanent – even after decades of tillage.

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