mycorrhiza

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Drawing on his background in microbiology and his doctoral dissertation on mycorrhiza, Smits began making enormous quantities of compost.

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  1. noun The symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus with the roots of certain plants, such as conifers, beeches, or orchids.

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  • Drawing on his background in microbiology and his doctoral dissertation on mycorrhiza, Smits began making enormous quantities of compost. —  Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
  • Acid phosphatase localised sheath Beech mycorrhiza —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Acid phosphatase localised sheath beech mycorrhiza —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Research reveals that the plant forms arbuscular mycorrhiza;
  • Colonization of adventitious roots of Medicago truncatula by Pseudomonas fluorescens C7R12 as affected by arbuscular mycorrhiza. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. myco- + Greek rhiza, root; see wrād- in Indo-European roots.
 

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