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 --
The fungus was generally distributed throughout the lock in the form of spores, sporangia and short hyphae.
The presence of fungus had no significant effect on thrips predation by either of the natural enemy species.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus spore populations respond to conversions between low-input and conventional management practices in a corn- soybean rotation.
In view of criterion (21) the loss of growth potential due to plasmid transfer overshadows the growth of the non-senescent fungus from resource consumption.
The fungus colonized the rice seeds within 14 days.
On the thorax of the female are the mycangia in which the spores of the symbiotic ambrosia fungus are transported.
This indicates that the degradation of faeces was not negatively affected by the presence of the fungus.
In the studies cited above, good results were obtained when animals had daily access to the fungus.
