Is it better to give than to receive? A stable isotope perspective on orchid-fungal carbon transport in the green orchid species Goodyera repens and Goodyera oblongifolia

New Phytologist

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-11

  Hynson, Nicole A ^a   Preiss, Katja ^b   Gebauer, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Goodyera; Mycorrhiza; Orchids; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

AUSTRIA; FUNGUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; UNITED STATES;

AUSTRIA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; FUNGI; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; ORCHIDACEAE; PLANT LEAVES; UNITED STATES;

GOODYERA; GOODYERA OBLONGIFOLIA; GOODYERA REPENS; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 61649116960     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02778.x     Document Type: Note

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