Mycoheterotrophy The Biology of Plants Living on Fungi /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Merckx, Vincent. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Botany.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5209-6

Over the course of evolution, several plant lineages have found ways to obtain water, minerals, and carbohydrates from fungi. Some plants are able exploit fungi to such an extent that they lose the need for photosynthesis. The ability of a plant to live on fungal carbon is known as mycoheterotrophy....

Table of Contents:

• Mycoheterotrophy: An introduction
• Taxonomy and classification
• Biogeography and conservation
• Subterranean morphology and mycorrhizal structures
• Evolution and diversification
• Progress and prospects for the ecological genetics of mycoheterotrophs
• Species interactions of mycoheterotrophic plants  specialization and its potential consequences
• The physiological ecology of mycoheterotrophy.