I asked Boddy what aspects of mycelial lives remain most mysterious. “Ah…that’s a good question.” She faltered. “I really don’t know. There are just so many things. How do mycelial fungi work as networks? How do they sense their environment? How do they send messages back to other parts of themselves? How are those signals then integrated? These are all huge questions which hardly anyone seems to be thinking about. Yet understanding these things is crucial to understanding how fungi do almost everything that they do.
