EnvThes – Thesaurus for long term ecological research, monitoring and experiments

✕

You are using a development system of the emerging eLTER Research Infrastructure (RI). Please note that this service is still under construction and may not yet be fully functional.

Preferred term

mycorrhizae

Is replaced by

Definition

  • [Henderson's] mycorrhiza n. symbiotic association between plant roots and certain fungi, in which a sheath of fungal tissue (the mantle) encloses the smallest rootlets. There are two main types. In ectomycorrhizas the fungal hyphae penetrate between the cells of the epidermis and cortex. In endomy­corrhizas they penetrate the plant cells themselves and an external fungal sheath is often lacking. Mycorrhizas are essential for optimum growth and development in many trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. plu. mycorrhizae, mycorrhizas. a. mycorrhizal.

Broader concept

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/USLterCV_358

Download this concept