0 any of various types of organisms that get their food from decaying material or other living things:
1 a plant without leaves, flowers, or color that lives on other plants or on decaying matter
Results have varied with the termite species and strain of fungus tested, and the concentration of inoculum and its mode of delivery to termite populations.
In both species, seeds lacking testae began to soften about day 8, were often attacked by fungus, and had rotted completely by day 10.
Bacteria were also found at some points of interaction between fungus and larval cuticle.
This fungus produces threedimensional adhesive nets, like the other fungi under study.
A large plant (size: 26 cm) was defoliated by an unidentified fungus in the early 1993 rainy season.
Pellets were prepared with the fungus mycelia in liquid culture medium and contained approximately 20% fungus.
However, this study found no relationship between soil clay content and incidence of the common fungus-growing species, analysed as a group or individually.
In the studies cited above, good results were obtained when animals had daily access to the fungus.