PART OF A HIGHLIGHT ON ORCHID BIOLOGY The importance of associations with saprotrophic non-Rhizoctonia fungi among fully mycoheterotrophic orchids is currently under-estimated: novel evidence from sub-tropical Asia
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Yung-I Lee, Chih-Kai Yang and Gerhard Gebauer* Biology Department, National Museum of Natural Science, No 1, Kuan-Chien Rd, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, The Experimental Forest, College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, 12 Chienshan Rd., Sec. 1, Chushan Township, Nantou 55750, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, 88 Tingchow Rd., Sec. 4, Taipei 11677, Taiwan and Laboratory of Isotope Biogeochemistry, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany * For correspondence. E-mail [email protected]
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