Substrate  - Substrate is used by microbiologists to indicate the food source for the organism.  A laboratory colony might use an agar preparation for substrate.  In nature the substrate might be decomposing organic matter (depending on the organism) or sugars provided by roots of a host plant in the case of mycorrhizal fungi.

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