{"id":547627,"date":"2025-06-09T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=547627"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:23:09","slug":"the-first-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-first-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"The first farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_547628\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-547628 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-formigas-fungos-2024-11-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-formigas-fungos-2024-11-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-formigas-fungos-2024-11-800-250x199.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-formigas-fungos-2024-11-800-700x557.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-formigas-fungos-2024-11-800-120x95.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Andr\u00e9 Rodrigues\u2009\/\u2009UNESP<\/span>Nutritive vesicles produced by fungi, magnified a thousand times<span class=\"media-credits\">Andr\u00e9 Rodrigues\u2009\/\u2009UNESP<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tens of millions of years before the agricultural revolution that transformed human society, other animals were already planting gardens. Ants were cultivating fungus some 66 million years ago. The asteroid that hit Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs may also have stimulated an increase in fungi that fed on organic matter. \u201cFungi were not an essential part of the ants\u2019 nutrition,\u201d Andr\u00e9 Rodrigues, a biologist from S\u00e3o Paulo State University (UNESP), Rio Claro campus, told <em>Ag\u00eancia FAPESP<\/em>. \u201cThe pressure caused by the asteroid\u2019s impact may have caused this relationship to become an obligate mutualism, in which the fungi began to rely on the ants in order to feed and reproduce, while the ants relied exclusively on the fungi as a food source.\u201d The event was dated by analyzing the genomes of 475 fungal species cultivated by ants and collected from across the Americas (<em>Ag\u00eancia FAPESP <\/em>and <em>Science<\/em>, October 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of millions of years before the agricultural revolution, ants were already farming fungi","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[209],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-547627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547637,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547627\/revisions\/547637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547627"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=547627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}