Plants used for their medicinal benefits and others for which may have great pharmaceutical value because of their high concentrations of therapeutically active substances can be helped to grow via the use of mycorrhizal fungi. Some studies have shown, for example, that better establishment and nutrient uptake by treated plants also enhanced the therapeutically active substances:
PlantWorks has undertaken projects to investigate this phenomenon on essential oil plants like hypericum, lavender and mint (Mentha) and can offer its expertise to similar studies around the globe.
