Assertion: truffle's spore | /r/HasProperty | washed into the soil
Facets:
value: by rain, germinate
type: OTHER
value: by melting snow
type: CAUSE
value: by rain
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: As these fungal spores are washed into the soil by rain or melting snow, they inoculate the root tips of trees and act as viable extensions of a tree's root system thereby aiding the tree in its uptake of water, phosphorus, nitrogen, and other metabolites from the soil that the tree itself is incapable of extracting with any efficiency.
text: On the ground, a squirrel might defecate on a disturbed area of the forest floor, where a pellet could land near a feeder rootlet of a Douglas-fir that may become inoculated with the mycorrhizal fungus when the spores, having been washed into the soil by rain, germinate.