Sentences with phrase «hosted by the fungi»

The Lecanorchis tabugawaensis hosted by the fungi that live in this ecosystem is further proof of the importance of Yakushima's lowland laurel forests.

Not exact matches

Mycorrhizal fungi live in the roots of host plants, where they exchange sugars that plants produce by photosynthesis for mineral nutrients that fungi absorb from the soil.

In other words, these are not synthesized by the fungus from the carbon skeletons of the sugars delivered by the host.

«The fungi may have found a good environment inside the insect and then they would have established in the new host by host - jumping from plants to insects,» said Araujo.

One example for such an association has now been reported by an international team of researchers in the journal New Phytologist: a fungus of the genus Trichoderma lives inside the tissue of tomato plants (endophytically) and helps its host to defend itself against infestations by parasitic nematodes.

Host cell invasion by medically important fungi.

Bleaching can be caused by a host of human - induced and natural factors such as (top) intense sunlight combined with elevated water temperature; (middle) diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses; and (bottom) coastal pollution that reduces water quality and increases susceptibility to bleaching.

Host resistance to the chytrid fungus of amphibians Amphibians in Panama have experienced declines for over a decade due to the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium... AmphibiaWeb

His talk focused on the relentless waves of amphibian die - offs in Central America, where hosts of unique populations were blinking out with each few miles of new territory affected by the fungus.