Sentences with phrase «symbiotic fungi»
"Symbiotic fungi" refers to a type of relationship between fungi and other living organisms, where they both benefit. The fungi help the other organism by providing essential nutrients or protection, while they themselves benefit from the organism's resources. Full definition
Root tips in these biomes evolved to be thinner so they could more efficiently explore soil for every unit of carbon the plant expends, and they have less dependence on symbiotic fungi.
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The 25,000 or so species can be found on every continent, where they grow with the help of symbiotic fungi that nourish them with carbohydrates.
New genetic evidence suggests willow trees may tolerate pollution by providing sugars to symbiotic fungi surrounding their roots; the fungi, in turn, provide nutrients to hydrocarbon - degrading bacteria.
Young orchids depend entirely on symbiotic fungi to provide energy for growth, and new research shows that those fungi are finicky, preferring older forests.
He invented the Life Box, a cardboard carton impregnated with tree seeds and symbiotic fungi.
The scientists added the symbiotic fungi for each orchid to half of the plots.
Some of those carbon products transfer from the roots to symbiotic fungi and soil microbes, which store the carbon in the soil as humus.
The cross sections above show that the roots of plants such as the subtropical oak species Lithocarpus chintungensis (largest cross section, center left) and the tropical species Parashorea chinensis (lower - right of largest cross section) retained their ancestral thickness and reliance on the symbiotic fungi (purple ring) that surround the root to help it obtain nutrients.
In addition, as plants spread into unpredictable environments such as arid deserts they grew less dependent on the symbiotic fungi — or mycorrhiza — that colonize roots and help host plants obtain the essential plant nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus.
As plant species spread from their nutrient - rich tropical origins, however, the root tips of plants such as the desert shrub species Tamarix ramosissima (left of largest cross section) evolved to be thinner so they could more efficiently explore soil for nutrients, and they have less dependence on symbiotic fungi.
She is also interested in the symbiotic fungi that live on the roots of the leatherwood shrub.
A population genomics approach shows widespread geographical distribution of cryptic genomic forms of the symbiotic fungus Rhizophagus irregularis — Romain Savary, ISME
Our project, Genomics of a Beetle - fungal symbiosis with massive implications for forest Disturbance Ecology, aims to understand the obligate relationship between bark and ambrosia beetles and their symbiotic fungi.
The range of a symbiotic fungi associated with plant roots may directly change as a result of altered climate, resulting in a change in the plant's distribution.