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How do mycorrhizae act as biofertilizers? Explain. Name a genus of fungi that forms a mycorrhizal association with plants.

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The symbiotic association between fungi and plants are called as mycorrhiza in which fungi absorbs phosphorus from soil which is then used by plants as nutrients. Hence, mycorrhiza can be used as biofertilisers. The fungi which belongs to genus Glomus forms mycorrhiza.

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