rhizophagy (English, noun)
expansion: rhizophagy (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The eating of roots.
tags: uncountable
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The degradation of symbiotic microbes within root cells; 'rhizophagy symbiosis', or 'rhizophagy cycle', is a cyclic process whereby plants obtain nutrients from symbiotic bacteria that alternate between a root intracellular endophytic phase and a free-living soil phase. Bacteria acquire soil nutrients in the free-living soil phase; nutrients are extracted from bacteria oxidatively in the intracellular endophytic phase.
tags: uncountable
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