exudate
Example Sentences
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This organic matter, the residue that living things leave in the dirt, can come from dead plants, root exudates, microbes, fungi, manure, even decomposing animals and insects.
From New York Times
In return, the plant roots produce an exudate that feeds the fungi.
From Seattle Times
When they exposed nematode eggs to the exudates using the paper, the hatching rate decreased by 85% compared with not using the paper, the team reports today in Nature Sustainability.
From Science Magazine
Me: Yeah, and I don’t care that your mustard is blindingly yellow, a color that does not occur in nature or even any known petrochemical exudate.
From Washington Post
Control, ambient seawater only; giant triton, ambient seawater conditioned with giant triton exudate.
From Nature
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