Delivering food from forests: integrating understanding across trees, fungi and soils to raise speciality crops in forest plantations

英国目前强调扩大林地覆盖率，这可能会与粮食生产系统产生重大冲突。农林业将粮食生产与木材作物结合在一起，有可能调和粮食生产和林业，但对高产和具有经济吸引力的生产系统缺乏了解，限制了其在英国的实践。在英国种植的许多树种与产生可食用子实体的真菌形成互惠共生关系(菌根)，为纳入农林复合系统提供了巨大的潜力。

The current emphasis om expanding woodland cover in the UK has the potential to create significant conflict with food production systems. Agroforestry, in which food production is combined with timber crops, has the potential to reconcile food production and forestry yet a poor understanding of high yielding and economically attractive production systems restricts its practice in the UK. Many tree species grown in the UK form a mutualist association (mycorrhizae) with fungi that produce edible fruiting bodies, providing great potential for incorporation into agroforestry systems.