单词 | mycotrophy |
释义 | mycotrophyn. Botany. A condition of association existing between the roots of certain plants and mycorrhizae or other fungi which are thought to aid the assimilation of nutrients. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > that lives in symbiotic relationship > mycotrophy mycotrophy1900 1900 Bot. Gaz. 30 69 His [sc. E. Stahl's] examples show a certain parallelism to exist between a greater ash-content and autotrophy on the one hand, and less ash-content and mycotrophy on the other. 1927 Forestry 1 115 Defining mycotrophy as the capacity to assimilate organic compounds through the agency of specific root fungi, Falck reviews the historical evidence bearing on the significance of mycorrhiza. 1976 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 716 Their mycotrophy enables them to colonize soils extremely poor in minerals. 1993 Mycol. Res. 97 656 The degree of mycotrophy may depend on habitat conditions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1900 |
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