Sentences with phrase «fungi than the trees»

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The tree of life shows us that flowering plants are Earth's most complex green algae, fungi are closer to animals than to plants, and we are essentially very strange fish.

Understory plant cover for both native and nonnative invasive species was positively associated with the AM fungi, however, invasive species cover increased at a rate 12 times greater than native species as AM - tree - dominance increased.

That, too, is unusual, especially given that on the tree of life, even primitive anaerobic fungi, like the three that underwent genome sequencing in this study, are evolutionarily much closer to humans than to bacteria.

The finding that they can germinate on ash plants and in forest debris means more strains of the fungus can proliferate in any one cluster of ash trees than previously thought, increasing gene flow between the strains and possibly leading to faster fungal evolution.

The ash dieback fungus could spread more quickly and affect more trees than previously expected, according to research at the University of Exeter.

More than 50 tree species there are reproductive hosts for the insect, making them vulnerable to the lethal fungus it transmits.

Many pathogens tolerate greater water stress than the trees they infect, and some fungi that commonly occur in or on trees become pathogenic when a tree is water stressed (Desprez - Loustau et al. 2006).

This fungus - like pathogen has killed more than a million oak trees in California and has been found in a number of Puget Sound nurseries.

(Phys.org)-- A new study undertaken by a diverse group of scientists in Sweden has found that contrary to popular belief, most of the carbon that is sequestered in northern boreal forests comes about due to fungi that live on and in tree roots, rather than via dead needles, moss and leaf matter.