Pyroloids, forest sub-shrubs of the Ericaceae family, are an important model for their mixotrophic nutrition, which mixes carbon from photosynthesis and from their mycorrhizal fungi. They have medical uses but are...
Tag - Pyrola
Alex Assiry
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.
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Biogeography of circumboreal taxa of Pyrola
A study finds that three circumboreal lineages of Pyrola have arisen independently, and at least two of these appear to have originated in Asia.
