• Title of article

    Do chlorophyllous orchids heterotrophically use mycorrhizal fungal carbon?

  • Author/Authors

    Selosse، نويسنده , , Marc-André and Martos، نويسنده , , Florent، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2014
  • 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 , orchid mycorrhizal symbiosis , rhizoctonias , stable isotope abundances
  • Journal title
    Trends in Plant Science
  • Serial Year
    2014
  • Journal title
    Trends in Plant Science
  • Record number

    2187867