{"id":38930,"date":"2021-10-13T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=38930"},"modified":"2021-10-20T19:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:51:57","slug":"researching-fungi-to-save-orchids-from-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/13\/researching-fungi-to-save-orchids-from-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching Fungi to Save Orchids from Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/teeny-tiny-orchid-seeds\/\">Orchid seeds<\/a> don&#8217;t carry nutrients. Instead, they rely on a specific fungus to supply food so they can germinate and grow. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kew.org\/read-and-watch\/lonely-and-hungry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the video below, Dr. Viswambharan Sarasan explains how this impacts Kew Gardens&#8217; work to save rare British orchids.<\/a> Scientists must collect fungi from orchid roots, take months to cultivate them, and identify which one each orchid needs. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re matchmaking for endangered species.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/346872614?h=5e0bb30d07\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid seeds don&#8217;t carry nutrients. Instead, they rely on a specific fungus to supply food so they can germinate and grow. In the video below, Dr. Viswambharan Sarasan explains how this impacts Kew Gardens&#8217; work to save rare British orchids. Scientists must collect fungi from orchid roots, take months to cultivate them, and identify which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-in-the-news","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38930"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39027,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38930\/revisions\/39027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}