Title of article
Do chlorophyllous orchids heterotrophically use mycorrhizal fungal carbon?
Author/Authors
Selosse، نويسنده , , Marc-André and Martos، نويسنده , , Florent، نويسنده ,
Pages
3
From page
683
To page
685
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
Record number
2005150
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