Tag: mixotrophy

Close Encounters

Basal orchid cheats on its fungal partner

2nd course: Cereals, nettles and conifers (and fish…) ****

Representatives of in vitro grown seedlings of species used in this study.

Annals of Botany News in Brief

In vitro axenic germination and cultivation of mixotrophic Pyroloideae (Ericaceae)

Mixtrophic species

Annals of Botany

Mixotrophy in boreal pyroloids does not vary with tissue age or light level

The trap of a Venus fly trap, showing trigger hairs.

Carnivory, more than meets the eye…

Single values for enrichment factors ε13C and ε15N and nitrogen concentrations (mmol g d. wt−1) of partially mycoheterotrophic (PMH) Orchidaceaeand Ericaceae associated with fungi forming ectomycorrhizas and the respective photosynthetic reference plants (REF, n = 1191).

Annals of Botany

It’s not easy being green: ecophysiological patterns of mycoheterotrophy in ectomycorrhizal Orchidaceae and Ericaceae

Image: Mariana Ruiz/Wikimedia Commons.

Waste not, want not…