Fecha de publicación: -- Fuente: WIPO "tomato" The disclosure provides a method of increasing soil organic carbon (SOC), comprising: heterologously disposing one or more fungal strains to treat a plant element, wherein the one or more fungal strains comprises a nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence that is at least 97% identical to the nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-8; and the one or more fungal strains are heterologously disposed in an effective amount to increase organic carbon in soil supporting a plant derived from the treated plant element relative to soil supporting a reference plant derived from a reference plant element.