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Daniel 🐅🏔Say it with me now: mycoheterotroph!!!
I love them.
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CellBioNews#Orchid's #nutrient theft from f#ungi sheds light on #photosynthesis-#parasitism continuum.
#kleptophagy #kleptoparasitism #mycoheterotrophy #mycorrhizae
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-orchid-nutrient-theft-fungi-photosynthesis.html
Orchid's nutrient theft from fungi sheds light on photosynthesis-parasitism continuum
Most orchids live in a symbiotic relationship with fungi in their roots: The plants provide sugar they produce through photosynthesis and in return receive water and minerals from the fungi. However, some orchids have stopped producing their own food and completely feed on fungi.
John PredomPink Ghost Pipes - Here's another favorite from July 2024. I had never seen pink ghost pipes. #Nature #NaturePhotography #GhostPipes #MycoHeterotrophy #Vermont
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺#Mycoheterotrophic #plants as a key to the '#WoodWideWeb' https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mycoheterotrophic-key-wood-wide-web.html
#Mycoheterotrophy in the wood-wide web https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01677-0
"They have no green leaves and therefore cannot photosynthesize, which is why they feed entirely at the expense of mycorrhizal #fungi. These fungal partners simultaneously enter into a second partnership with forest trees and can mediate carbon exchange between the plants."
Mycoheterotrophic plants as a key to the 'Wood Wide Web'
Bayreuth researchers shed light on the natural evidence for the occurrence and function of networks of fungi and plants—so-called mycorrhizal networks. Through this "Wood Wide Web," plants can exchange resources and even information with each other. The researchers have now reported their findings in the journal Nature Plants.
Planetary EcologistMyco-heterotrophy (Botany 🌱)
Myco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A myco-heterotroph is the parasitic plant partner in this relationship. Myco-heterotrophy is considered a kind of cheating relationship and myco-he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy
#MycoHeterotrophy #Botany #Ecology #Mycology #Symbiosis #ParasiticPlants
