title: Do chlorophyllous orchids heterotrophically use  mycorrhizal fungal carbon?
abstract: The roots of orchids associate with mycorrhizal fungi, the rhizoctonias, which are considered to exchange mineral nutrients against plant carbon. The recent discovery that rhizoctonias grow endophytically in non-orchid plants raises the possibility that they provide carbon to orchids, explaining why some orchids differ in isotopic abundances from autotrophic plants.
authors.forename: Marc-André
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Selosse
authors.forename: Florent
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martos
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism*; D052836:Heterotrophic Processes; D038821:Mycorrhizae; D029595:Orchidaceae / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000382:microbiology; D012232:Rhizoctonia; D013559:Symbiosis
chemical_list: D002244:Carbon