THE TALKING MYCORRHIZA.
At the Agricutural Experimental Station of Padjadjaran University of Bandung, West Java, a certain species of fungi
which doesn’t cause any plant diseases was intentionally infected to mungbean seeds.
The infections were conducted by
means of mixing the seeds with spore-carrier soil. The seeds then were dibbled in the ground with pointed sticks at time of mungbean planting. This kind of fungi is called mycorrhiza
fungi. The spore-carrier soil was mixture of
mycorrhiza-infected corn roots and spore-laden soil from the corn field.
Spherical spores found in the carrier soil and vesicles released from chopped infected corn roots are mycorrhiza
“seeds”. (Siti Djasmara, 1995)
UPPER ROW Left: Mungbean root tissue without mycorrhiza vesicle.
Right: Corn root tissue not infected by mycorrhiza.
LOWER ROW Left:Mycorrhiza vesicle in the mungbean root tissue.
Right: In the corn root tissue.
Right: In the corn root tissue.
Photography
by: Siti Djasmara/ Jonas. Magnification 400 x.
Moist soils caused mungbean seeds absorb water and swell and
then roots grow. At the same time mycorrhiza spores absorbed water also and were swollen too and broken and then hyphae grow from it.
Hyphae, something like fine thread structures grew from those mycorrhiza “seeds”. Mycorrhiza often cooperating with higher class plants. Mycorrhiza can "smell" where the plant roots are.
In the efforts to make contact with mungbeans, the limited mycorrhiza’s energy has to be adequate to reach mungbean root hairs. For that reason Lord the Most Merciful has given capabilities for mycorrhiza to “smell” moisture excreted by mungbean roots and move to that directions. The capability to "smell" are biochemical and physical sciences.
When the growing hyphae were in contact with mungbean hairy roots, both the mungbean and the mycorrhiza “communicate” to each other, telling each other that they are friends.
In the efforts to make contact with mungbeans, the limited mycorrhiza’s energy has to be adequate to reach mungbean root hairs. For that reason Lord the Most Merciful has given capabilities for mycorrhiza to “smell” moisture excreted by mungbean roots and move to that directions. The capability to "smell" are biochemical and physical sciences.
When the growing hyphae were in contact with mungbean hairy roots, both the mungbean and the mycorrhiza “communicate” to each other, telling each other that they are friends.
The “language” between mungbean and
mycorrhiza are biochemical and physical reactions between the two that have been programmed
in the ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of both creatures.
DNA is something like a very tiny “computer
chip” with programs to manage biological organism life. He the Supreme Creator has inserted hundred
millions of program-laden computer chips into each of mungbean cell nucleus and also hundred millions of another chips into each mycorrhiza cell nucleus.
As a result of this cooperation, mycorrhizal
hyphae are allowed to penetrate between mungbean hairy root cells. Touched by the
hyphae, mungbean root cell walls grow thinner so that interchanges of nutritional compounds between the two creatures take place more
easily.
Mycorrhiza absorbed nutrients in the soil
and siphoned some portions of it to mungbean tissues. Mungbean assimilate CO2 and H2O
in their chlorophylled leaves with the sunshine as a catalyst to produce
glucose and flowed some of its liquid glucose to mycorrhiza. This cooperation is called mutualistic symbiose.
Mycorrhiza cannot produce its own food
because it has no chlorophylls nor leaves,
lives in the dark under the soil, and nobody see or care about its
existence, turn out to be thriving
because it received nutrients from mungbean.
Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) who was illiterate and couldn't write, spoke the word of Allah (Glory Is To Allah) :
There is no moving creatures on earth but its sustenance dependeth on God. He knoweth the time and place of its definite abode and its temporary deposit. All in a clear Book 1)
The Koran,Huud (11):6
1) Lauh Mahfuzh is
a place or a “book” where shapes, characteristics, fates of all creatures
(living or dead matters) and things are kept and recorded. Very small portion of Lauh Mahfuzh contents have been known by
Man in the form of Knowledge. The rests are still not known.
It has been more than 500 million years
since higher plants were created, mycorrhiza a kind of fungi which had evolved to cooperate with higher plants receiving
glucose from many species of plants live in the tropical and
subtropical forests, savannas, grasslands and semi deserts and everywhere in
this case receiving
glucose from mungbean.
How long is 500 million years can be imagined by comparing that the arrival of Adam and Eve possibly only 12,000 years ago.
How long is 500 million years can be imagined by comparing that the arrival of Adam and Eve possibly only 12,000 years ago.
Sardjono Angudi
09/2010 revised 02/2023
09/2010 revised 02/2023
References:
Personal discussions with Siti Djasmara.
Qur'an, Indonesian Translation, TNI AD, 1994.
Qur'an, Indonesian Translation, TNI AD, 1994.
