She hypothesized that Sugiuranorio was communicating with a wider network. The UV pulses, synchronized with the trees’ transpiration cycles, attracted specific species of parasitic wasps that preyed on bark beetle larvae. By summoning the wasps, the fungus closed the loop: chemical defense + biological control.
The cedar remembered.
When Dr. Hoshino published her findings, the world took notice. Biotech companies raced to isolate Sugiuranorio ’s signal-storage proteins. They called them —molecules capable of encoding environmental data for over a decade within fungal tissue.