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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

right??? like how would you need to adjust the rhizomes for a new planet if it had a suitable atmosphere but no organisms

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I guess plants can also grow without mycorrhiza associations or nitrogen fixing bacteria. But otherwise you could probably add fungi/bacteria into the mix, too. I don't think we are even close to understand all the different interactions between various microorganisms with larger organisms with plants. Even pathogenic associations are sometimes net positive for plants.