Fungi are directly or indirectly connected with everyday life of humankind. They grow in wide range of niches and environments, from plants, plant debris, soils, and animals to bare rock (some lichens), rivers and lakes (aquatic fungi), the sea (marine fungi), the North Pole, and the tr...
and tropical regions of the world where there is sufficient moisture to enable them to grow. A few species of fungi live in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, although they are rare and are more often found living insymbiosiswithalgaein the form oflichens(see belowLichens). About 144,000 ...
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As lichens clearly show, combining an organism that can exploit light and atmospheric CO2 with one that can efficiently exploit the substrate represents a fruitful adaptation to habitats at the soil–atmosphere interface. However, experimental data supporting the antiquity of AM associations have until ...
from a live host without harming it, then it is called a symbiont or a mutualist. Lichens — fungi and algae together — are an example of a mutualistic relationship. If a fungus feeds on a live host while harming it, then it is a parasite, according to the "Encyclopedia of ...
In this study fungal strains were investigated, which had been isolated from eggs of the cereal cyst nematode Heterodera filipjevi, and roots of Microthlaspi perfoliatum (Brassicaceae). The morphology, the interaction with nematodes and plants and the ph