Fungi

How To Use Fungi In A Sentence

• He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
• There is also a small genus of orchids, called coralroots, that obtains the majority of its nutrition from a mycorrhizal association with soil fungi.
• The fungi also coat tree roots, protecting against microbial pathogens and drought.
• Finally we get to the common ancestor of all animals, plants, protists, and fungi.
• A method for separation and determination of cantharidin from the culture of medicinal fungi using capillary gas chromatography was developed.
• Moreover, host plant can also affect the growth and development of AM fungi, and produce different infection rate, spore-bearing rate and mycorrhiza effect.
• Several species of fungi that colonize corn produce mycotoxins, however not all isolates of a toxigenic species produce mycotoxins and isolates capable of producing a mycotoxin do not always synthesize the toxin.
• Here, 12 orchid species are distributed including four mycotrophic orchids (dependent on soil fungi for nutrients).
• Unlike more advanced plants, fungi lack chlorophyll and so can only grow as saprophytes (from dead plants or animals); or as parasites (on living plants); or in a mycorrhizal relationship (symbiosis between fungi and the roots of trees).
• They proved that fungi can be identified in virtually all patients with chronic rhinosinusitis if meticulous, painstaking efforts are taken to procure samples.