These fungi have countless branching, thread-like hyphae that together make up the mycelium.

这些真有数的分枝，线状丝共同构成了丝体。

Only in this way can the hypha be preserved.

只有这样。丝才不被破坏。

Molds form branches that are like thin threads called hyphae.

霉的分枝像细细的线，它们被称作丝。

In a single pinch of dirt, these hyphae, when lined up, can extend 11 km!

在一小撮土里，这些丝如果排成一排能够延伸 11 公里。

That means that the sugars flow from the tree roots into the fungal hyphae.

这意味着糖分从树根流入真丝。

Two plants were surrounded with a 40-micron mesh.This can be penetrated by hyphae but not by roots.

另两株植物则被直径40微米的筛孔环绕，这种尺寸下，蚕豆根法穿过，真可以渗透而过。

The white thin hair is the hypha of mucor, which gives tofu a new vitality.

白色的细丝是毛霉的丝是它们赋予豆腐新的活力。

They multiply and metamorphose— substituting their rounded structures for elongated thread-like forms called hyphae.

它们繁殖和变形——用它们的圆形结构代替称为丝的细长线状形式。

The strange food covered with white hypha is actually tofu.

这些附着着白色丝的奇特食物它们的实质是豆腐。

They also extend hair-like filaments called hyphae into the soil which pump water even more efficiently than the tree's own roots.

它们还将像头发一样叫做称为丝的细丝延伸到土壤中，它比树木自身的根部吸更高。

They took their inspiration directly from nature, observing movement patterns in fungal hyphae, brain neurons, and pollen tubes.

他们直接从大自然中汲取灵感，观察真丝、脑神经元和花粉管的运动模式。

Gaps that size are too small for either roots or hyphae to penetrate, but they do permit the passage of water and dissolved chemicals.

蚕豆根或者丝都法穿过，而只有和可溶性化学物质能够透过。

Once the sugars enter the fungus, they travel along the hyphae through pores between cells or through special hollow transporter hyphae.

糖类进入真后，它们通过细胞间的孔隙或特殊的中空转运体丝沿丝传播。

So Hueber examined them under the microscope and found long, tube-shaped cells that were similar to the hyphae found in modern fungi.

因此 Hueber 在显微镜下检查它们，发现长管状细胞与现代真中发现的丝相似。

But unlike its tiny predecessor, the giant fungus sent out huge networks of hyphae in all directions, sending food back to its central pillar.

但与其微小的前身不同， 巨型真向各个方向发出巨大的丝网络，将食物送回其中心支柱。

Then, four days from the end, one of the 40-micron meshes in each mesocosm was rotated to sever any hyphae that had penetrated it, and the central plant was then infested with aphids.

到了实验结束前四天，研究人员在每个生态系统中都旋转了一个40微米网筛，切断了所有穿过筛孔的真丝，不久位于中央的那株蚕豆就受到了大批蚜虫的侵扰。

The researchers who conducted this study knew that soil fungi whose hyphae are symbiotic with tomatoes (providing them with minerals in exchange for food) also form a network connecting one plant to another.

土壤中的真丝与番茄属共生关系，真向番茄提供矿物质，作为交换，番茄则向真供给“食物”。而实验研究者们同样早就清楚地知道，真丝还在植物之间构建起了网络。

For Dr Johnson believes he has shown that just such an internet, with fungal hyphae standing in for local Wi-Fi, alerts beanstalks to danger if one of their neighbours is attacked by aphids.

约翰逊博士认为，他已经很明白地展示出，正是这样一个地下网络，凭借真丝所起到的局部线网络（Wi-Fi）作用，在邻近植物遭蚜虫进犯时，可以向其它豆茎发出警报，警惕邻近的危险。