Record ID No. |
4934 |
Author(s) |
Marc-André Selosse, Florent Martos , 2014 |
Affiliation |
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution (UMR 7205 ISYEB), CP 50, 45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France, Email: ma.selosse@wanadoo.fr |
Title |
Do chlorophyllous orchids heterotrophically use mycorrhizal fungal carbon? |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Trends in Plant Science 19(11): 683–685p. |
Categories |
Orchid Mycorrhiza |
Subjects |
Soil plant relations |
Sub-subjects |
Photosynthesis |
Host |
Orchids |
Organism |
Mycorrhizal fungi |
Country |
France, Western Europe |
Abstracts |
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. |