Lorenzo Washington

Lorenzo Washington is a PhD candidate in Plant & Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley and received a BS in Bioenvironmental Sciences from Texas A&M in 2018. He studies how the plant cell wall and plasma membrane influence the establishment and regulation of beneficial microbial relationships in the root system.
Lorenzo Washington

Listen Closely, the Trees are Talking

March 30, 2021 •  by

When people say that trees “talk” to each other, that’s a concept that rests, in part, on an extraordinary and microscopic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the roots of 90 percent of all plants.