Are helleborines epiparasitic upon ectomycorrhizal associations?
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- Funding country
United Kingdom
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- Start date
- 1/1/2004
- End date
- 12/31/2006
- Budget
- 36,895 EUR
Fundings
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Small Grants | Grant | - | - | - |
Organisations
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University of Sheffield | Lead Partner | - | - |
Abstract
The hypothesis that symbiotic germination in the genera Cephalanihera and Epipactis is dependent upon colonisation by ectomycorrhizal rather than Rhizoctonia-type fungi and that the symbionts of these helleborine orchids are co-associated with neighbourin