"Brainless fungi trade resources with plants like a stock market"

"In soils across the world, fungi trade resources with the plants they colonise in a mutually beneficial relationship. But it turns out the fungi are savvy traders, taking advantage of their partners by shuttling goods to nutrient-starved areas where plants are willing to pay more than usual"

(from https://www.newscientist.com/article/2205604-brainless-fungi...)

FYI. Sort of relevant.