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• Parasite
  ...parasites as these that plant pathology is primarily concerned. Parasitic fungi commonly grow within the tissues of the host plant, reaching the surface on ...opment saprophytically. Again, there are many fungi which, while generally parasitic, may be grown in the laboratory upon a variety of culture media, or cooked
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• Blight
  ...two classes,—those due to bacteria or microbes, and those due to parasitic fungi. For an account of these troubles, see Diseases.
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• Phycomycetes
  ...ts, etc.; Rhizopus nigricans, a mold on bread, fruit, etc.; Empusa muscae, parasitic on houseflies, causing their death and producing a white halo about them on
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• Galeola
  ...this genus are [[myco-heterotrophic]], i.e. they are [[parasitic]] upon [[fungi]]. The Genus is spread throughout Asia (Madagascar to Japan) and contains 2
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• Eumycetes
  ...cket Fungi) which also attack the wood of living trees. The last-mentioned fungi, including Armillaria, inhabit the trunks and branches of forest trees, cau
  4 KB (545 words) - 00:52, 30 April 2009
• Moulds
  ...g in the tropics have not been fully investigated. See, also, Diseases and Fungi.
  4 KB (588 words) - 23:41, 8 January 2010
• Epiphyll
  ...foliage leaves rather than to those that are parasitic on them as are the fungi. Epiphyllous plants are likely to be most abundant in the tropics.{{SCH}}
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• Epidendroideae
  ...few [[myco-heterotrophs]], which are [[parasitic]] upon [[mycorrhizal]] [[fungi]].
  3 KB (368 words) - 13:53, 23 June 2007
• Fungi
  ...yxomycetes and bacteria. While they have certain characters in common with fungi, they are sufficiently distinct to be considered separately. ...y destructive mushroom parasite of trees, Armillaria mellea. The spores of fungi are minute microscopic bodies cut off from the sporophores for the purpose
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• Chaga mushroom
  | subregnum = [[Fungi]] ...der]] mushroom''', is a fungus in ''[[Hymenochaetaceae]]'' family. It is a parasitic fungus of the Birch and other trees. The sterile conk is irregularly formed
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• Ergot
  | regnum = [[Fungus|Fungi]] ...opical regions. Economically important species are ''Claviceps purpurea'' (parasitic on [[Poaceae|grass]]es and cereals), ''C. fusiformis'' (on [[pearl millet]]
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• Fungus
  | common_names = mushrooms, sac fungi, yeast, molds, rusts, smuts, etc. | regnum = Fungi
  12 KB (1,848 words) - 22:38, 25 August 2009
• Plant
  ...which are also destitute of a green color. This is the explanation of the fungi, lichens, bacteria, and some flowering plants (e.g., dodder, Indian pipe, b
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• Saprophyte
  ...ytic, but has recently assumed a virulent parasitic development. Among the fungi we class as saprophytes all plants which live upon a dead or decaying organ
  5 KB (688 words) - 07:54, 12 May 2009
• Powdery Mildew
  ..., a group of fungi widely separated from the true mildews. The mycelium is parasitic within the tissues of the host, only the fruiting branches appearing at the
  4 KB (587 words) - 08:02, 30 May 2012
• Damnacanthus
  ...ns weaken the plants and allow them to fall a prey to the minute parasitic fungi which live upon the decaying vegetable matter in the soil, and can remain a
  5 KB (831 words) - 17:44, 24 August 2009
• Disease
  ...root tubercles of legumes caused by the attacks of certain nitrogen-fixing parasitic bacteria. Here increased growth and crop-yield are generally held to result ...oducts, have greatly favored the distribution of plant pathogens (insects, fungi and bacteria), and afford them exceptional opportunities for destructive de
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• Lichen
  There is evidence to suggest that the lichen symbiosis is [[parasitism|parasitic]] rather than [[mutualism|mutualistic]] (Ahmadjian 1993). The photosyntheti Many lichen fungi appear to reproduce sexually in a manner typical of fungi, producing spores that are presumably the result of sexual fusion and [[mei
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• Lingzhi
  | regnum = [[Fungi]] | ecologicalType2=parasitic
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• Mushroom
  ...t white mushrooms. However, mushrooms can also be a wide variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally to describ ...xymoron]] statement if the term mushroom could not be applied to poisonous fungi. The term toadstool is nowadays used in story telling when referring to poi
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