Can mushrooms save the world?

Could mushrooms meet the health and environmental challenges of tomorrow? A surprising overview of their unsuspected virtues.
Neither plants nor animals, mushrooms survived the great ice ages, massive waves of species extinctions and the arrival of the first humans by developing a unique form of intelligence that allowed them to adapt to the most difficult conditions. extremes and colonize most environments.
Mushrooms today deploy their filaments in laboratories around the world where their prodigious talents as builders, network engineers and gifted chemists inspire researchers.
Some are already dreaming of diverting the astonishing properties of these sophisticated primitive organisms which could provide solutions to problems as burning as soil pollution, the encroachment of deserts or even the fragility of telecommunications networks.
Director: Anne Rizzo and Thomas Sipp