The symbiotic interaction between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is often
perceived as beneficial for both partners, though a large ecological literature highlights the …

Darwin's model of evolution by natural selection was based on his observations of change in
discrete organisms in which individuals are easy to define. Many of the most abundant …

A revised and updated classification for the families of flowering plants is provided. Many
recent studies have yielded increasingly detailed evidence for the positions of formerly …

Here, we describe a new database, MaarjAM, that summarizes publicly available
Glomeromycota DNA sequence data and associated metadata. The goal of the database is …

Over 35 years ago, it was hypothesized that mutualistic symbiotic soil fungi assisted land
plants in their initial colonization of terrestrial environments. This important idea has become …

Much of what we know about speciation comes from detailed studies of well‐known model
systems. Although there have been several important syntheses on speciation, few (if any) …

Mycoheterotrophic orchids have adapted to shaded forest understory by shifting to
achlorophylly and receiving carbon from their mycorrhizal fungi. In temperate forests, they …

This chapter provides a description of all plant families and genera that include putative fully
mycoheterotrophic species, excluding initial and partial mycoheterotrophs. The overview …

Dust seeds are the smallest existing seeds in angiosperms. This paper summarizes
taxonomic distribution, phylogeny, ontogeny, morphology, and recruitment behavior of dust …

We investigated the physiological ecology of the Asian non-photosynthetic orchid Gastrodia
confusa. We revealed its mycorrhizal partners by using molecular identification and …