The fungal symbionts forming ectomycorrhizas, as well as their associated bacteria, benefit
forest trees in a number of ways although the most important is enhancing soil nutrient …

Due to land use history, most of the current temperate and boreal forests are developed on
nutrient-poor and rocky soils, keeping fertile soils for agriculture. Consequently, the …

Mycorrhizal fungal networks linking the roots of trees in forests are increasingly recognized
to facilitate inter-tree communication via resource, defense, and kin recognition signaling …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Summary 1 In the conventional view of soil carbon (C) cycling, mycorrhizal fungi are
primarily considered vectors for plant C input to soils. However, there is accumulating …

The roles of mycorrhiza in facilitating the acquisition and transfer of carbon (C) and nitrogen
(N) to adult orchids are poorly understood. Here, we employed isotopically labelled sources …

Plant roots release recent photosynthates into the rhizosphere, accelerating decomposition
of organic matter by saprotrophic soil microbes (“rhizosphere priming effect”) which …

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a practical and theoretical framework for the study
of the ecophysiology of mycoheterotrophic plants. We accomplish this by providing a …

Amino acid concentration in the rhizosphere results from fluxes between plant roots, soil and
microorganisms. In this context, root amino acid exudation process, composed of both efflux …

Carbon (C), nutrients and water (H 2 O) have been known for five decades to flow between
plants through ectomycorrhizal (EM) networks. This flux has the potential to affect plant and …