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Tag - mycoheterotrophy
Nigel Chaffey
Hungry for fungi: green mycoheterotrophic plants are far more common than previously thought
A surprising number of plants snack on fungi as well as sunshine.
Laura Skates
Basal orchid cheats on its fungal partner
Apostasia nipponica is the first member of the early-diverging orchid clade found to be using this strategy.
Erin Zimmerman
When a plant loses photosynthesis, what else does it lose?
One of the common features of plants they make their own food. But what happens inside a plant when they stop making their food and eat something else?
Alun Salt
Thismia and its unusual number of specialist relationships.
Plants sometimes specialise. Catering for a specific partner can ensure a reliable source of food or pollination. At the same time, relying on that partner limits your adaptability. A new study by Guo and colleagues, A...
The flower that never blooms
When a plant gives up photosynthesis, it can find that it's an advantage to give up a lot more too.
Dale Maylea
Mixotrophy in boreal pyroloids does not vary with tissue age or light level
Pyroloid mixotrophy does not respond plastically to ageing or to light level. This contrasts with the usual view of a convergent evolution with orchids.
botanyone
Genetic diversity and evolution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Arachnitis uniflora
Arachnitis uniflora is a mycoheterotrophic plant that obtains nutrients via arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of neighbouring autrotrophic plants. Some mycoheterotrophic plants have the ability to associate with more than...
It’s not easy being green: ecophysiological patterns of mycoheterotrophy in ectomycorrhizal Orchidaceae and Ericaceae
Autotrophy, though common among plants, isn’t the only way plants make a living. Some plants have lost all photosynthetic abilities and instead rely on symbiotic relationships with fungi. Even some leafy green plants...
Saprotrophic fungi and fully mycoheterotrophic orchids
This study identifies saprotrophic mycorrhizal fungi for seven mycoheterotrophic orchid species growing in four humid and warm subtropical forests in Taiwan
Complexities of orchid seedling establishment (Viewpoint)
A better understanding of germination and seedling establishment is needed for the conservation of vulnerable or threatened orchid populations.
Novel structure of placenta in a lycophyte
An examination of an embryo in an underground gametophyte reveals a massive foot with ultrastructural variability comparable to that across major clades.
Evolution of mycoheterotrophy from mixotrophic ancestors
Evolution of mycoheterotrophy from mixotrophic ancestors Nutritional changes associated with the evolution of achlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic plants have not been inferred within a robust phylogenetic framework...
