In the early issues Luxford wrote a series of ten articles on myco-heterotrophy, around " monotropa hypopithys ", and prompted sharp debate.
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Psychrophiles use a wide variety of metabolic pathways, including photosynthesis, chemoautotrophy ( also sometimes known as lithotrophy ), and heterotrophy, and form robust, diverse communities.
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Indeed, much myco-heterotrophy takes place in the context of common mycorrhizal networks, in which plants use mycorrhizal fungi to exchange carbon and nutrients with other plants.
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This is lined with inconspicuous cilia which beat continuously, drawing food inside the cell . " Paramecia " live mainly by heterotrophy, feeding on bacteria and other small organisms.
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These two lifestyles, autotrophy and heterotrophy, found in one organism ( " V . brassicaformis " ) represent the store of potential that was able to lead to the Myzozoan radiation.
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Full ( or obligate ) myco-heterotrophy exists when a non-photosynthetic plant ( a plant largely lacking in chlorophyll or otherwise lacking a functional photosystem ) gets all of its food from the fungi that it parasitizes.
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It is now known that these plants are not physiologically capable of directly breaking down organic matter and that in order to get food, non-photosynthetic plants must engage in parasitism, either through myco-heterotrophy or direct parasitism of other plants.
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In addition, several green plants ( evolutionarily close to myco-heterotrophic species ) have been shown to engage in partial myco-heterotrophy, that is, they are able to take carbon from mycorrhizal fungi, in addition to their photosynthetic intake.
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Also, I could be wrong, but since this is a relatively short article on a specific topic, I'm not sure if it qualifies to be a featured article . ( The latter is the reason I've never tried putting Myco-heterotrophy or Galerina forward as FA candidates . ) Also, I think that quite a bit of the toxicity info really belongs in another article, since this information on amanitin and phalloidin poisoning is not at all specific to this species.
