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How do mycorrhizae help the plants to grow better?


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Mycorrhizae:

  1. Mycorrhizae is a fungus that grows in association with the roots of a plant in a symbiotic or mildly pathogenic relationship.
  2. They help the plants to grow in the following ways:
  3. The term mycorrhiza refers to the role of the fungus in the plant's rhizosphere and its root system.
  4. Mycorrhizae play important roles in plant nutrition, soil biology, and soil chemistry.
  5. The presence of Mycorrhizae causes flora to be much less vulnerable to water stress.
  6. It has a distinct morphological structure that develops as a result of the mutualistic symbiosis between some specific root-inhabiting fungi and plant roots.
  7. Thus the Association between fungi and roots is mycorrhizae.
  8. This symbiotic affiliation permits plant roots to be hospitable areas for fungi to anchor and convey hyphae.
  9. While roots nourish fungi for growth, massive hundreds of fungal hyphae function as digital root structures for flora thereby growing the number of vitamins and water that a plant can in all likelihood gain from the ambient soil.

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