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Stable isotope analysis indicates partial mycoheterotrophy in arbuscular mycorrhizal woody seedlings in tropical forests

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By Franziska E. Zahn, Gerhard Gebauer, Blexein Contreras
| British Ecological Society (Wiley)
1 INTRODUCTION The vast majority of plants are associated with mycorrhizal fungi, which optimise their nutrient and water supply from the soil. In return, mycorrhizal fungi receive organic carbon (C) compounds from the plant associates (Smith & Read, 2008). This mutualistic interaction, however, can shift to an exploitive disparity, where plants often referred to as ‘cheaters’ gain C from their fungal partners—a nutritional mode called mycoheterotrophy (Leake, 1994; Merckx, 2013).
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