The structure and function of the vegetative mycelium of ectomycorrhizal plants .4. Qualitative-analysis of carbohydrate contents of mycelium interconnecting host plants
Författare
Summary, in English
Plants of Pinus spp. were grown in observation chambers with the mycorrhizal fungi Suillus bovinus, Pisolithus tinctorius or Paxillus involutus. After interconnecting mycelial systems had developed between plants, individual hosts in some chambers of each species were fed with 14CO2. Mycelia from radioactively labelled and unlabelled chambers were harvested and their carbohydrates were extracted, separated chromatographically and identified. The major carbohydrates in all of the fungi were trehalose, mannitol and arabitol, their relative proportions differing in the different fungi. The results are discussed in relation both to carbon nutrition of the fungus and to carbon transfer between interconnected plants.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
1988
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
163-166
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
New Phytologist
Volym
109
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Biological Sciences
Nyckelord
- Ectomycorrhiza
- carbon transfer
- carbohydrate
- translocation
- Pinus spp.
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Microbial Ecology
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1469-8137