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Biofertilizers are living microbes that enhance plant nutrition by either by mobilizing or increasing nutrient availability in soils. How does mycorrhiza act as biofertilizer? Explain. Name a genus of a fungus that forms a mycorrhizal association with the plants

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The mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association between the fungus and the roots of higher plants. Such fungi in the association tend to absorb phosphorus from the soil and pass it on to the plant for completing its metabolic and catabolic processes. The genus Glomus forms a mycorrhizal association with the plants.
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