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Fungus: ally of desert, wetland plants. (50% or more of plants growing in Ohio's Beaver Creek watershed are mycorrhizal)(Biology)(Brief Article)
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October 14, 1995
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1995 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Mycorrhizal fungi and plants practice the "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" approach to life. The fungi attach themselves to the roots of plants and feed on their hosts' store of carbohydrates. But they give back more than they take, as they tap hard-to-reach nutrients and water in the soil and share their finds with the plants.
Many mycorrhizal plants and fungi exist throughout the world, in salt marshes, deserts, and pine forests (SN: 9/23/95, p.198)--but not in wetlands, or so scientists had thought.
Now, Carl F. Friese of the University of Dayton in Ohio and his colleagues report that more than 50 percent of the plants growing in southwestern Ohio's large ...
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