Claim · model-written summary
A. saingei uses the fungus itself as energy storage instead of starch deposits.
- Taxon
- A. saingeiAfrothismia saingeie0
- Interactor
- funguse0symbiont
- Outcome
- fungus itself as energy storagee0
- Comparator
- starch depositionse0
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Verbatim
e0“two species, A. korupensis and A. saingei, use the fungus itself as energy storage, replacing starch depositions used by A. gesnerioides and A. hydra”
Title
Stephan Imhof; Benjamin Feller; Anna Heser Mycorrhiza 2020. doi:10.1007/s00572-020-00951-1
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Afrothismia species have elaborate fungal colonization patterns supporting repeated fungal penetration.
- Observation Mycorrhizal organization progresses from a simpler A. gesnerioides pattern to a more complex A. saingei pattern.
- Observation A. korupensis uses the fungus itself as energy storage instead of starch deposits.
- Observation A. gesnerioides uses starch depositions for energy storage.
- Observation A. hydra uses starch depositions for energy storage.
- Observation Hyphal morphological complexity in plant compartments increases from A. gesnerioides to A. saingei.
- Observation The anatomical and metabolic differences support taxonomic distinction of Afrothismia from other Thismiaceae.