Novel mycorrhizal cheating in a green orchid: Cremastra appendiculata depends on carbon from deadwood through fungal ass...
Published in The New phytologist
To date, there has been no robust evidence for the exploitation of saprotrophic non-rhizoctonia fungi by green plants, although some fully mycoheterotrophic orchids are known to exploit them, and mycoheterotrophic evolution has probably occurred through intermediate mixotrophic stages. We investigated the physiological ecology of a fully mycohetero...
