HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
PLANT BIOLOGY
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The fungus partner is always going to be the major partner
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fungi gets food by absorbing nutrients that are from the organic material that they live in
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the fruit of the organism
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Lichen
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Detailed explanation-1: -For a long time, scientists considered fungi to be members of the plant kingdom because they have obvious similarities with plants. Both fungi and plants are immobile, have cell wall s, and grow in soil. Some fungi, such as lichens, even look like plants (see Figure below). Moss (Plant) and Lichen Growing on Tree Bark.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mycorrhizae are symbiotic relationships that form between fungi and plants. The fungi colonize the root system of a host plant, providing increased water and nutrient absorption capabilities while the plant provides the fungus with carbohydrates formed from photosynthesis.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lichens are mutualistic organisms consisting of a fungal partner, the mycobiont, and of one or more photosynthetic partners, the photobiont. Taxonomically speaking, they belong to the kingdom of fungi and represent here a special group, the lichenized fungi (Honegger, 1996).
Detailed explanation-4: -The fungal partner may be referred to as the mycobiont. While most lichen partnerships consist of one mycobiont and one photobiont, that’s not universal for there are lichens with more than one photobiont partner.