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Bidartondo, Martin I. ; Burghardt, Bastian ; Gebauer, Gerhard ; Bruns, Thomas D. ; Read, David J.:
Changing partners in the dark: Isotopic and molecular evidence of ectomycorrhizal liaisons between forest orchids and trees.
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Bd. 271
(2004)
Heft 1550
.
- S. 1799-1806.
ISSN 0962-8452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2807
Abstract
In the mycorrhizal symbiosis, plants exchange photosynthates for mineral nutrients acquired by fungi from the soil. This mutualistic arrangement has been subverted by hundreds of mycorrhizal plant species that lack the ability to photosynthesize. The most numerous examples of this behaviour are found in the largest plant family, the Orchidaceae. Although non-photosynthetic orchid species are known to be highly specialized exploiters of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, photosynthetic orchids are thought to use free-living saprophytic or pathogenic fungal lineages. However, we present evidence that putatively photosynthetic orchids from five species that grow in the understorey of forests (i) form mycorrhizas with ectomycorrhizal fungi of forest trees and (ii) have stable-isotope signatures indicating distinctive pathways for nitrogen and carbon acquisition approaching those of non-photo synthetic orchids that associate with ectomycorrhizal fungi of forest trees. These findings represent a major shift in our understanding of both orchid ecology and evolution because they explain how orchids can thrive in low-irradiance niches and they show that a shift to exploiting ectomycorrhizal fungi precedes viable losses of photosynthetic ability in orchid lineages.
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| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Biologie > Lehrstuhl Pflanzenökologie Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren > Bayreuther Zentrum für Ökologie und Umweltforschung - BayCEER Fakultäten Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Biologie Forschungseinrichtungen Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik |
| Eingestellt am: | 11 Sep 2015 06:34 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 05 Sep 2022 09:39 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/19212 |