Fungal Lightning

And that article is based on this research paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ab7627

In short, the expanded air and vibrations from lightning are hyhpothesized to cause disruptions in the hyphae of the shitake fungi, leading them to change into a reproductive phase and increase yield. In mushroom farming, this is typically done by "skillfully beating" the logs that the fungi are growing in as per the first article above.

What I want to know is, where is the evidence that atmospheric electricity increases the size of rats that is reported in the articles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation

Anyone who worked at a farm or golf course or landscaping knows this elementary fact of science, having a hard time understanding what qualifications Geoff Manaugh has to write about science.