Growing evidence for facultative biotrophy in saprotrophic fungi: data from microcosm tests with 201 species of wood‐decay basidiomycetes

What is it about?

Some fungi form associations with plant roots, in which they trade nutrients they acquire from soil to the plant in return for sugar. Other fungi do not normally associate with living plants and instead consume dead organic material like wood or leaf litter. Here we document the ability of fungi in the latter group to form associations with plants, like the fungi in the former group do.

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