Tag: mixotrophy

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

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

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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…