Most orchids live in a symbiotic relationship with fungi in their roots: The plants provide sugar they produce through ...

Some orchids have evolved a unique parasitic lifestyle, abandoning full reliance on photosynthesis in favor of extracting nutrients from fungi. Oreorchis patens serves as a fascinating case, capable ...

Researchers found that some orchids abandon photosynthesis and feed on fungi when conditions allow. Instead of relying on ...

Creating a colony-forming unit commonly starts with adding around 15 ml of molten agar to around 1 ml of bacterial culture in ...

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Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University who specializes in orchids that rely on soil fungi for sustenance ... the plants produced seeds, and the morphology of the flowers throughout their ...

“She used some of the methods we use to study bacteria and fungi for arthropods ... To circumvent the limitations of morphology-based identification, Madden used environmental DNA and high-throughput ...

Why have some orchids stopped photosynthesis and become parasites feeding on fungi? Researchers found that in at least one species the transition may be driven by the opportunity -- more than by the ...

Why have some orchids stopped photosynthesis and become parasites feeding on fungi? Kobe University researchers found that in at least one species the transition may be driven by the opportunity more ...