We can see carbon as this currency that plants use to benefit from fungi...

我们可以将碳视为植物使用的货币，以此从真菌获益。

But those hulls also protect the grain from fungus and diseases.

但是这些外壳也可以保护谷物免受真菌和疾病的侵害。

In case you aren't familiar, atmospheric carbon is a currency that plants use to " buy" nutrients from fungi in the soil.

如果你不熟悉的话，大气中的碳是植物使用的货币，用来从土壤中的真菌中“买”养分。

Those hair-things are actually bundles of nutrient-absorbing tendrils -- called hyphae -- from fungi living symbiotically with the plant.

这些毛发实际上是一束吸收营养的卷须——称为菌丝——来自与植物共生的真菌。