Fate of some fungal spores associated with wheat straw decomposition on passage through the guts of Lumbricus terrestris and Aporrectodea longa

Agriculture & Biology

• Aporrectodea longa 100%
• Lumbricus terrestris 81%
• fungal spores 74%
• Mucor hiemalis 70%
• wheat straw 62%
• Fusarium lateritium 50%
• digestive system 48%
• spores 47%
• earthworms 46%
• degradation 36%
• spore germination 33%
• Agrocybe 24%
• Chaetomium globosum 21%
• germination 21%
• Trichoderma 16%
• pumps 14%
• viability 11%
• fluids 11%
• fungi 8%
• soil 7%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Oligochaeta 89%
• Fungal Spores 83%
• Triticum 72%
• Spores 68%
• Germination 57%
• Agrocybe 19%
• Chaetomium 17%
• Trichoderma 15%
• Mucor 15%
• Fusarium 13%
• Soil 10%
• Fungi 8%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• straw 60%
• spore 59%
• wheat 54%
• germination 45%
• decomposition 42%
• earthworm 34%
• abrasion 10%
• viability 9%
• fungus 8%
• pump 8%
• fluid 5%
• particle 4%
• soil 4%
• effect 2%