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Beneath the Earth On the surface there is an extraordinary underground network of fungi of almost unimaginable scale. An international team of researchers has produced, for the first time, a global map of this vast network of mycorrhizae, the system of fungal filaments that form mutually beneficial associations with plants around the planet. They estimate