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The biology of myco-heterotrophic ('saprophytic') plants.
  • J. Leake
  • Environmental Science
    The New phytologist
  • 1 June 1994
TLDR
Most myco-heterotrophs are entirely subterranean for most of their lives and these stages exhibit adaptations consistent with a change in function from organs of absorption to organs of storage, shown by the almost universal loss of root hairs, decrease in surface area.
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Networks of power and influence: the role of mycorrhizal mycelium in controlling plant communities and agroecosystem functioning
TLDR
The potential contribution of extraradical mycorrhizal mycelium to sustainable agriculture and maintenance of biodiversity is assessed and technologies that promise new vistas and improved fine-scale resolution of the dynamic spatial and temporal functioning of these networks in soil are highlighted.
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Mapping an urban ecosystem service: quantifying above‐ground carbon storage at a city‐wide scale
Summary 1. Despite urbanization being a major driver of land-use change globally, there have been few attempts to quantify and map ecosystem service provision at a city-wide scale. One service that…
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Mycorrhizal fungi as drivers of ecosystem processes in heathland and boreal forest biomes
TLDR
What unites mycorrhizas in heathland and boreal forest biomes is their apparent affinity for acidic organic soils of inherently low accessibility of the major nutrients nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P).
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Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
TLDR
It is shown that non-photosynthetic plants associate with AMF and can display the characteristic specificity of epiparasites, which suggests that AMF mediate significant inter-plant carbon transfer in nature.
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Base cation depletion, eutrophication and acidification of species-rich grasslands in response to long-term simulated nitrogen deposition.
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Mutualistic mycorrhiza in orchids: evidence from plant-fungus carbon and nitrogen transfers in the green-leaved terrestrial orchid Goodyera repens.
TLDR
This study demonstrates mutualism in orchid mycorrhiza, bidirectional transfer of C between a green orchid and its fungal symbiont, and a fungus-dependent pathway for organic N acquisition by an orchid.
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Mycorrhizal Specificity and Function in Myco-heterotrophic Plants
TLDR
It is argued that specificity represents a continuum and can only be properly assessed using phylogenetic data, and whether myco-heterotrophic orchids interact with fungi in fundamentally different ways than do autotrophs.
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Bryophyte physiological responses to, and recovery from, long-term nitrogen deposition and phosphorus fertilisation in acidic grassland.
TLDR
Physiological measurements are more sensitive than measurements of abundance as bioindicators of N deposition impact and of recovery in particular and appear to be a key mechanism driving bryophyte loss along with damage to photosystem II.
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Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition: responses of multiple plant and soil parameters across contrasting ecosystems in long‐term field experiments
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is a global and increasing threat to biodiversity and ecosystem function. Much of our current understanding of N deposition impacts comes from field manipulation…
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