Glomalin

Glomalin is a hypothetical glycoprotein produced abundantly on hyphae and spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in soil and in roots. Glomalin was proposed in 1996 by Sara F. Wright, a scientist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service, but it was not isolated and described yet.^[1] The name comes from Glomerales, an order of fungi. Most AM fungi are of the division Glomeromycota.^[2] An elusive^{[clarification needed]} substance, it is mostly assumed to have a glue-like effect on soil, but it has not been isolated yet.^[3]

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