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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
卷 89, 期 11, 页码 1852-1858出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.89.11.1852
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Ceratobasidium; orchid mycorrhizae; Puerto Rico; Rhizoctonia; specificity
All orchids have an obligate relationship with mycorrhizal symbionts. Most orchid mycorrhizal fungi are classified in the form-genus Rhizoctonia. This group includes anamorphs of Tulasnella, Ceratobasidium, and Thanatephorus. Rhizoctonia can be classified according to the number of nuclei in young cells (multi-, bi-, and uninucleate). From nine Puerto Rican orchids we isolated 108 Rhizoctonia-like fungi. Our isolates were either bi- or uninucleate, the first report of uninucleate Rhizoctonia-like fungi as orchid endophytes. we sequenced the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of nuclear ribosomal DNA from 26 isolates and identified four fungal Lineages, all related to Ceratobasidium spp. from temperate regions. Most orchid species hosted more than one lineage, demonstrating considerable variation in mycorrhizal associations even among related orchid species. The uninucleate condition was not a good phylogenetic character in mycorrhizal fungi from Puerto Rico. All four lineages were represented by fungi from Tolumnia variegata. but only one lineage included fungi from lonopsis utricularioides. Tropical epiphytic orchids appear to vary in degree of specificity in their mycorrhizal interactions more than previously thought.
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