micobiont

English

Noun

micobiont (plural micobionts)

1. Alternative form of mycobiont
   • 1969, Atti, page 16:

     On this theoretical basis and remembering the difficulty of obtaining fruiting bodies and the impossibility of producing spores from the micobiont raised in pure culture, […]

   • 2009, Vladimir Kirillovich Savchenko, Geogenomics: Organisation of the Genosphere, page 122:

     In the majority of cases ascomycetes play a role of micobiont whereas basidiomycetes do this only in 2 % of cases.

   • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 81:

     Schwendener proposed that the lichen fungus (known today as the micobiont) offered physical protection and acquired nutrients for itself and for the algal cells.

   • 2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811:

     It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.