micobiont

plural micobionts

1. alternativeAlternative form of mycobiont.

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

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

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   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, […]

   1969, Atti, page 16

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

   2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 81

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

   2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811