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NON‐SPECIFICITY OF SYMBOTIC INFECTION IN ORCHID MYCORRHIZA
Author(s) -
HADLEY G.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1970.tb02481.x
Subject(s) - biology , orchidaceae , botany , symbiosis , rhizoctonia , fungus , mycorrhiza , rhizoctonia solani , bacteria , genetics
S ummary Symbiosis tests carried out between orchids from several geographical localities and thirty‐two Rhizoctonias isolated from orchids, non‐orchid hosts and soils of worldwide distribution, showed no evidence of any species‐to‐species relationship between orchid and fungus. Dactylorhiza purpurella established a symbiotic relationship with most fungi tested while Coeloglossum wide, Goodyera repens and Cymbidium canaliculatum , although less frequently symbiotic, established compatible infections with many isolates. Among orchids with photo‐synthetic protocorms, Epidendrum radicans was compatible with several fungi but three other species of Epidendrum together with Spathoglottis plicata and a Laeliocattleya cultivar were symbiotic only with Tulasnella calospora and certain Ceratobasidium isolates. Tulasnella calospora may be a universal orchid symbiont. Ceratobasidium cornigerum and Thanatephorus orchidicola commonly occur as root endophytes but are doubtfully symbiotic with most orchids. T. cucumeris is frequently symbiotic with Dactylorhiza purpurella but less commonly so with other orchids tested.