Myco-heterotrophy: When fungi host plants

Annals of Botany

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1255-1261

  Merckx, Vincent ^a,c   Bidartondo, Martin I ^d   Hynson, Nicole A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cheater; Common mycorrhizal network; Mutualism; Myco heterotrophy; Non photosynthetic; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

CHEATING BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNGUS; HETEROTROPHY; HOST PLANT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; MYCORRHIZA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SAPROTROPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HETEROTROPHY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MYCORRHIZAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI;

EID: 73149109281     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcp235     Document Type: Article

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