The more is learned about plants and other organisms, the more apparent it is that many, if not most, plants are involved in symbiotic associations in which one or more other organisms live in close interaction with the plant—almost as if they are one. Symbiosis is frequently thought of as being a mutualistic relationship in which both the plant and its symbiont benefit. Typical examples include the alga and fungus that make up a lichen and the bacteria living in a legume root nodule.... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2023. 3p.