Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling an arbuscule; tufted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike.
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- adjective Similar to a small
tree ;shrublike
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Examples
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The group called arbuscular fungi is especially interesting, because many of them penetrate plant roots with a spider web of branched hyphae (fungus "roots"), which also spread out into the surrounding soil.
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Leaf 15N abundance of subarctic plants provides field evidence that ericoid, ectomycorrhizal and non - and arbuscular mycorrhizal species access different sources of soil nitrogen.
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Miombo is notable among dry tropical woodlands for the dominance of tree species with ectomycorrhizal rather than vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal associations.
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Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae affect lowland tropical rain forest plant growth.
Chapter 8 1996
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They also showed that vesicular-arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizal infection occurs in acid tropical soils and that nodulation rates increase when mycorrhizae have infected the root.
Chapter 8 1996
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Increase and maintenance of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Chapter 10 1996
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Like Rhizobium, vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (YAM) are soil organisms that invade the roots of NFTs and other plants to form symbiotic relationships.
Chapter 4 1996
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An evaluation of techniques for measuring vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal infection in roots.
Chapter 8 1996
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The majority of tropical nitrogen fixing trees form symbiotic associations with vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (YAM) in the endomycorrhizal group.
Chapter 5 1996
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Effect of soil liming and vesicular-arbuscular-mycorrhizal inoculation on the growth and micronutrient content of the teff plant.
Chapter 28 1996
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