neophyte
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"This means that we need to protect plants and their fungal endophytes across the boreal biome, and not just in one location, or we risk losing vital biodiversity and protective fungi in these important forests."
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
The first association between fungi and photosynthetic organisms on land involved moss-like plants and endophytes.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Plants grown from seed with these endophytes removed lacked their parent plants' heat-tolerant traits — but regained them when the fungi were reintroduced.
From Nature • Sep. 25, 2013
“Fungal endophytes limit pathogen damage in a tropical tree.”
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2010
But Hatfill planned to go after something few others had sought—a class of organisms called endophytes.
From Newsweek
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