What are the relationships between fungi and plants and how do fungi help the plants?

In mycorrhizas, fungi colonise young roots and access organic carbon from the host. In all but orchid mycorrhizas the fungus supplies the host plant with increased mineral nutrients, commonly phosphate and/or nitrogen from soil. In the case of orchids, the precise physiological relationship is unclear because the fungus germinates orchid seed in the wild, supplying organic carbon to the plant. In addition, the mycorrhizl fungus supplies minerals to the adult plant. The fungus gains no apparent benefit, though density of mycorrhizal fungi declines dramatically away from the surface of the plant.


What are the relationships between fungi and plants and how do fungi help the plants?
the symbiotic relationship of the fungi and plants are mutualism. Commonly they are called mychorryzal, example Botelus sp.


These fungi commonly found in the roots of the plants (trees). The fungi breakdown nutrients from the soil that are not capable of that of the plant. while the plants serves as the shelter and also breakdown nutrients that fungi cannot.


This mychorryzal relationship is true in a thins soil environment, like mountain which only few inches are top soil.


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