
Contemporary biology has met mythology, and as fate would have it, Tomasz Sitarz was there to see it. A story emerged about competition, and about a battle in every cubic centimetre of the soil, but also about the grand alliance between fungi and plants.
In the beginning was the seed.
He said: “Let there be water, an environment for chemical reactions and a solvent for all of life.”
And the seed, placed in the black soil, swelled with the water it took in and took its first breath. The enigmatic emanations of elemental life energy, the lipases, amylases and proteases, attacked the stored substances, cutting the chains of their polymers, breaking the handcuffs that shackled metabolism, which once begun will last until the end of time.
He said: “Let there be light, which will be absorbed by chlorophyll, and let the energy of each quantum of light be food