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Partial and full mycoheterotrophy in green and albino phenotypes of the slipper orchid Cypripedium debile.
Mycorrhiza - 1 May 2021
Suetsugu Kenji, Yamato Masahide, Matsubayashi Jun, Tayasu Ichiro
Abstract excerpt
Most green orchids form mycorrhizal associations with rhizoctonia fungi, a polyphyletic group including Serendipitaceae, Ceratobasidiaceae, and Tulasnellaceae. Although accumulating evidence indicated that partial mycoheterotrophy occurs in such so-called rhizoctonia-associated orchids, it remains unclear how much nutrition rhizoctonia-associated orchids obtain via mycoheterotrophic relationships. We investigated...
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