Sentences with phrase «called hyphae»

When colonising a plant, the beneficial fungus blooms within individual plant cells, growing thin tendrils called hyphae that extend into surrounding soil and pump minerals and nutrients straight into the heart of plant cells.

The fungi send out long microscopic threads called hyphae that create a subterranean network enabling plants to exchange nutrients.

Scientists aren't sure why Pd lights up under UV light, but they think that once Pd filaments, called hyphae, penetrate the bat's skin, those hyphae secrete substances that eat away at the living tissue and also happen to fluoresce under UV light.

The fungi live in plant roots where they elongate their tendrils (called hypha) into the surrounding soil, like an extension of the root system, to better access and transfer nutrients to the plant.

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Specialized threads (hyphae, pink), called conidiophores, end in bunches of spores (conidia, yellow), the fungal reproductive units.

By extension, it designates the entire fungus producing the fruiting body of such appearance, the former consisting of a network (called the mycelium) of filaments or hyphae.

In a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, UFZ researchers have been able to demonstrate that these so - called fungal hyphae also form a hot spot for gene transfer between bacteria.