These fungi help plants absorb nutrients and water. These fungi form a symbiotic association with the roots of nearly all plants to help them grow. Sometimes these microbes become macrobes, large organisms, that you can see as mushrooms. Spore of mycorrhizae These spores form in sorghum roots. Spores serve to propagate the fungus.
Some spores develop outside the root.
Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Vescicles Mycorrhizal fungi live with and help the roots of nearly all plants. In this association, the fungus extends itself into the soil and helps the plant by gathering water and nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen . In return, the plant helps the fungus by giving it sugar produced by photosynthesis . This is an example of symbiosis , a win-win association. Mycorrhizae allow plants to live in desolate areas that are poor in nutrients , such as road-sides, disturbed soil near mining operations and in tropical rain forests.