Symbiosis and Bluebells

James Merryweather, previously at the University of York’s biology department, takes us on a journey underground to understand a complex, little-known world. Here we find co-operation between plants and fungi - both between each other and within the ecological communities they inhabit. He takes a detailed look at the bluebell's complex below-ground community of root-infesting fungi with which it interacts during its annual cycle, unsuspected and unseen by us macroscopic above-ground animals.