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DESCRIPTION:Plants need sunlight\, water\, and soil nutrients to grow. A pa
 rt of the carbon produced by photosynthesis in the foliage is transferred 
 to root-associated &lsquo\;mycorrhizal&rsquo\; fungi\, which help plants t
 o take up nutrients and water from the soil. This carbon can be subsequent
 ly taken up by non-green plants that tap into the same fungal network: ful
 ly mycoheterotrophic plants. Although fully mycoheterotrophic plants repre
 sent only a tiny fraction of plant diversity\, they demonstrate that carbo
 n uptake from mycorrhizal fungi is a successful plant strategy to thrive i
 n low light conditions. Indeed\, some relatives of fully mycoheterotrophic
  plants are partially mycoheterotrophic: they can combine autotrophy and m
 ycoheterotrophy when light or seed reserves are insufficient for growth. W
 e currently assume that that up to 9% of all plant species are capable of 
 some form of mycoheterotrophy (mostly orchids). However\, based on recent 
 isotopic evidence a new form of partial mycoheterotrophy has been discover
 ed\, which advances the hypothesis that an additional 35% of land species 
 are capable of mycoheterotrophy and can survive in low-light habitats by r
 eceiving carbon from root-associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.\n****\n
 Vincent Merckx was selected as Senior Fellow of the Bayreuth Humboldt Cent
 re 2020 with the project 'Carbon transfer in arbuscular mycorrhizal networ
 ks' and is hosted by BayCEER members Gerhard Gebauer and Johanna Pausch.
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211021T121500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211021T134500
SUMMARY:Dr. Vincent Merckx\, Research Group Leader Understanding Evolution\
 , Naturalis Biodiversity Center\, Leiden\, Netherlands (Homepage): Mycohet
 erotrophy: an uncharted carbon flux in the plant world
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