Sentence examples for mycelial from inspiring English sources

The tube grows on the surface of the host until it finds an opening; then the tube enters the host, puts out branches between the cells of the host, and forms a mycelial network within the invaded tissue.

Overwintering also occurs as mycelial mats on crops or weeds.

In some lowland forests, the soil contains an abundance of mycorrhizal fungi, resulting in mycelial networks that connect the trees together.

A substance secreted by nematodes stimulates the fungus to form the mycelial rings.

They are, for the most part, invisible, single-celled microbes and cobwebs of wispy mycelial thread, lurking beneath the surface of things.

These are mycelial networks that can sometimes cover many miles.

Powdery mildew has made major inroads on the curcurbits, its off-white mycelial coating quickly colonising the host.

What's really going on is the mycelial networks in the soil: the hyphae of the fungi is closely associated with the roots of plants, so it's a very, very close symbiotic association.

As an undergraduate studying natural sciences at Cambridge, in the late aughts, Sheldrake read the 1988 paper "Mycorrhizal Links Between Plants: Their Functioning and Ecological Significance," by the plant scientist E. I. Newman, in which Newman argued boldly for the existence of a "mycelial network" linking plants.