Partial mycoheterotrophy is more widespread among orchids than previously assumed
Partial mycoheterotrophy is more widespread among orchids than previously assumed
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DOI:
10.1111/nph.13865
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发表时间:
2016-07-01
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9.4
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Gebauer, Andreas C.
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Gebauer, Gerhard;Preiss, Katja;Gebauer, Andreas C.
With> 22 000 species in 880 genera occurring on all continents in almost every habitat, the Orchidaceae is considered the most diverse and most widely distributed plant family on Earth (Merckx et al., 2013). All orchids produce tiny, dust-like seeds (Arditti & Ghani, 2000) that require carbon (C) and nutrient supply by mycorrhizal fungi for germination and in the early seedling development phase (Smith & Read, 2008). This kind of nutrition is called initial mycoheterotrophy (Merckx, 2013). Later the majority of orchids develop green leaves and photosynthesize, yet remain mycorrhizal. There are, however, also> 200 achlorophyllous orchid species. These orchids require complete C and presumably mineral nutrient supply from mycorrhizal fungi and are known as full mycoheterotrophs (Leake, 1994; Merckx, 2013). Owing to their use of a 13C-(Gleixner et al., 1993) and 15N-enriched (Gebauer & Dietrich, 1993) fungal source for nutrition, mycoheterotrophic orchids are significantly enriched in 13C and 15N, when compared with autotrophic plants from the same microhabitats (Gebauer & Meyer, 2003; Trudell et al., 2003; Hynson et al., 2013). Based on their isotopic positioning between autotrophic nonorchids and achlorophyllous orchids, during the last decade a couple of chlorophyllous orchids have been found to acquire C from both autotrophic photosynthates and associated fungi (Gebauer & Meyer, 2003; Hynson et al., 2013). This mode of mixotrophic C gain is called partial mycoheterotrophy (Gebauer & Meyer, 2003; Merckx, 2013).In the past, the use of C stable isotope natural abundance played an important role in elucidating C gain by higher plants from two origins. This approach was highly successful when the two C sources of interest were sufficiently distinguished in their isotope composition, for example, in the case of hemiparasites with C3 photosynthesis simultaneously utilizing host plants with C4 or CAM photosynthesis (Press et al., 1987; Schulze et al., 1991; Ziegler, 1996). Limitations of this approach emerged in cases with two potential C sources not sufficiently distinguished in their C isotope composition, for example in the case of C3 hemiparasites utilizing C3 host plants (Schulze et al., 1991; Ziegler, 1994). Since early investigations by Bernard (1909), the majority of chlorophyllous orchids are considered as forming mycorrhizas with fungi that belong to the phylogenetically heterogeneous assemblage of rhizoctonias (Dearnaley et al., 2012). Interestingly, all known partially mycoheterotrophic orchids are additionally or exclusively associated with fungi that simultaneously form ectomycorrhizas