mycorrhizal

American  

[mahy-ker-ahyz-uhl] / ˌmaɪ kərˈaɪz əl /

adjective

1. Botany. relating to, having the characteristics of, or involving mycorrhiza.

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Other Word Forms

• non-mycorrhizal adjective

Example Sentences

Ready or not, the 5,000 or so plants have to go because the wildlife crossing over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills is ready to receive them, with its special, once lifeless soil that was brought to life with inoculations of the same microbes and mycorrhizal fungi that thrive in soil of the surrounding hills.

From Los Angeles Times

Lyndsay Jaimeson is business manager at Mycorrhizal Systems, which has been helping growers wanting to branch out into truffles.

From BBC

More galling than that is knowing she accidentally awakens that herd, which chases her at first before pivoting towards Jackson, where tendrils of the mycorrhizal network, unifying whatever passes for the horde’s hive mind, have activated in the town’s sewers.

From Salon

Over the next few days they’ll be adding 6,000 cubic yards of specially manufactured soil to cover the crossing, a mix of sand, silt and clay inoculated with a bit of compost and hyperlocal mycorrhizal fungi, carefully designed and tested to mimic the biological makeup of native soils around the site.

From Los Angeles Times

The engineered soil will also be inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi spores collected within five miles of the crossing, the same spores added to the soils growing the 5,000-plus hyper-local native shrubs and wildflowers that will be planted on the crossing.

From Los Angeles Times