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arbuscular

arbuscular

1 9.9
Having small tree-like branches, often seen in fungi that live inside plant roots
  • adjective
  • /ˌɑːrbəˈskjʊlər/
  • Specialized
: arbuscular
  • Photo (color): A microscopic view of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus growing on a corn root.
  • arbuscular mycorrhizal
  • arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
  • arbuscular-mycorrhizal community

Examples

  • Similar results have also been reported for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Vandenkoornhuyse et al. 2003).

    Academic text (2008)
  • Examples of spores and colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from our study site.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Basics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biology and taxonomy

    Academic text (2001)
  • Sampling effort curves depicting the rate of discovery of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species at our site against years and number of samples.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Consequently, AM fungi are also known as vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal, or VAM, fungi.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Wright named glomalin after Glomales, the taxonomic order that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi belong to.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase plant access to scarce or immobile soil minerals, particularly phosphorus, and thereby increase plant growth rates.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Levels were maintained or raised by no-till, cover crops, reduced phosphorus inputs, and the sparing use of crops that don't have arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on their roots.

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  • Most land plants form symbiotic relationships with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which enhance nutrient exchange.

How Tree-Like

arborescent
  • Specialized
1 9.9
arbuscular
  • Specialized
1 9.9
branched
2 3.5
unbranched
1 6.3

Surface Forms

arbuscular positive

Morphology

arbuscular = arbuscule (semi-transparent) = arbuscule + ar

Formally derived by the productive adjectival suffix '-ar' from the noun 'arbuscule', but both the base and the resulting term are specialized biological vocabulary and not obvious to general learners.

Etymology

Arbuscular comes from the Latin word arbor meaning 'tree' and from the small form arbuscule meaning 'little tree'. So, something arbuscular is tree-like or branching in shape, for example fungi that make tiny, tree-shaped branches inside plant roots.