Claim · model-written summary
Liverwort-fixed carbon was transferred to the fungus.
- Taxon
- Cephalozia bicuspidata
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Cephalozia bicuspidatae1 - Interactor
- Pezoloma ericae
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Hyaloscypha hepaticicolae2symbiont - Outcome
- liverwort-fixed C to the funguse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“of liverwort-fixed C to the fungus”
e1“Cephalozia bicuspidata”
e2“Pezoloma ericae”
Title
From rhizoids to roots? Experimental evidence of mutualism between liverworts and ascomycete fungi
Jill Kowal; Silvia Pressel; Jeffrey G Duckett; et al. Annals of Botany 2017. doi:10.1093/aob/mcx126
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Fungal-acquired phosphorus was transferred to the liverwort Cephalozia bicuspidata.
- Intervention effect Fungus-colonized liverworts showed increased growth compared with liverworts without Pezoloma ericae.
- Observation This is the first demonstration of nutritionally mutualistic symbiosis between a non-vascular plant and an ErM-forming fungus.
- Observation The ascomycete-liverwort symbiosis can now be described as mycorrhiza-like.
- Observation The findings point toward an early origin of ascomycete-liverwort symbioses, possibly pre-dating their evolution in the Ericales by about 150 million years.