-Most common fungal-plant mutualists association occurrs between microorganisms and higher plants.
-Mycorrhizae are enormously important in natural ecosystems and agriculture.
-Plants harbor harmless symbiotic endophytes that live inside leaves or other plant parts.
-Endophytes make toxins that deter herbivores and defend against pathogens.
-Mycorrhizae are mutually beneficial relationships between fungi and plant roots
-Fungus colonizes root of host plant.
-Plant provides fungus with food in return for increased nutrient absorption from soil.
-Ectomycorrhizal fungi form sheaths of hyphae over a root and also grow into the extracellular spaces of the root cortex.
-Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi extend hyphae through the cell walls of root cells and into tubes formed by invagination of the root cell membrane.
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