Title of article :
Do chlorophyllous orchids heterotrophically use mycorrhizal fungal carbon?
Author/Authors :
Selosse، نويسنده , , Marc-André and Martos، نويسنده , , Florent، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The roots of orchids associate with mycorrhizal fungi, the rhizoctonias, which are considered to exchange mineral nutrients against plant carbon. The recent discovery that rhizoctonias grow endophytically in non-orchid plants raises the possibility that they provide carbon to orchids, explaining why some orchids differ in isotopic abundances from autotrophic plants.
Keywords :
root endophytic fungi , Mixotrophy , Mycoheterotrophy , rhizoctonias , orchid mycorrhizal symbiosis , stable isotope abundances
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics
