Why isn't anyone talking about mycorrhizae?

Mycorrhizae are fungi that form an extremely beneficial symbiotic relationship with almost all plants in our organic gardens. I stumbled upon it while doing research for our garden here at my college.

The more I dug through academic journals, the more I found about how much research has been done, and how beneficial this fungus is. I read about it so much that I was shocked when others had never even heard about it (the standard response was "Mike O'who?").

Instead of bombarding our farms with nutrients, these fungi cover a much larger surface area and improve the efficiency of the plant's nutrient uptake, specifically phosphorus. Phosphorus is the last thing we need to be adding to our soil, and many farmers don't even add it anymore because there is so much left over from years of fertilization. Mycorrhizae can help utilize that phosphorus. To read more about mycorrhizae, search for articles by David Douds, or go to http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/node/441.

And now, research is beginning to indicate that mycorrhizae could hold a key to some of our carbon problems. Glomalin, a glycoprotein, is (believed to be) secreted by the fungus. The presence of glomalin means that carbon is being channeled down into the soil naturally, and in a form that will not be released back into the environment. Of course, some have heard this and done some rough calculations in order to make claims about removing all the greenhouse gases within 5 years if we simply implement mycorrhizae into all our farming techniques (this was an unquantified claim, but at least it can get people excited, right?).

Google it, read about it on Wikipedia, and see what you can do to take advantage of this beautiful symbiotic relationship that was created many years before "Conventional Farming" came along.