Sentence examples for mycelium from inspiring English sources

In the laboratory, fungi are commonly propagated on a layer of solid nutrient agar inoculated either with spores or with fragments of mycelium.

He constructed an osmometer (a device to measure osmotic pressure), developed a technique to detect heat production in muscle tissue and in individual plants, showed that mushrooms are the reproductive bodies of the mycelium (mass of fungal filaments), and was one of the first to recognize the importance of individual cells in the functioning of an organism.

The mycelium (filaments composing the body of the fungus) is conspicuous around bits of decaying organic matter.

A simple lichen is made up of a top layer consisting of a tightly woven fungal mycelium, a middle layer where the photosynthetic microbe lives, and a bottom layer of mycelium.

The germ tubes of some fungi produce special pressing organs called appressoria, from which a microscopic, needlelike peg presses against and punctures the epidermis of the host; after penetration, a mycelium develops in the usual manner.

The mycelium forms elaborate structures over colonies of insects feeding on the bark.

The trees and their seedlings can use the fungal mycelium to exchange nutrients and chemical messages.

These fungi are diminutive, usually less than 10 mm (0.4 inch) in height, and are characterized by a sparse mycelium (fungal body) that produces unbranched sporangiophores (fruiting bodies) capped with black sporangia (spore clusters).

Actinomycete (order Actinomycetales), any member of a heterogeneous group of gram-positive, generally anaerobic bacteria noted for a filamentous and branching growth pattern that results, in most forms, in an extensive colony, or mycelium.

The mycelium in some species may break apart to form rod- or coccoid-shaped forms.

In filamentous fungi the mycelium may fragment into a number of segments, each of which is capable of growing into a new individual.