A phosphorus threshold for mycoheterotrophic plants in tropical forests
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A phosphorus threshold for mycoheterotrophic plants in tropical forests.
The majority of terrestrial plants associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, which typically facilitate the uptake of limiting mineral nutrients by plants in exchange for plant carbon. However, hundreds of non-photosynthetic plant species-mycoheterotrophs-depend entirely on AM fungi for carbon as well as mineral nutrition. Mycoheterotrophs can provide insight into the operation and regu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2093