BIOL 1902 Lecture 16: Plant Nutrition Cont./ Animal Reproduction
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Mycoheterotrophs are plants that do not require sunlight because they get nutrition from fungus (mycorrhizal) Gets its carbon products from living plants, thereby it lives like a parasite and is also a mycoheterotroph. Mixotrophs are plants that make their own food through photosynthesis and get food from mycorrhizae (fungal partners) Holoparasites are plants that steal food from other plants mycorrhizae, that is the only source of their food. They copy a plant"s chemicals to attract that plant"s mycorrhizae. Witch"s broom is an abnormal growth of leaves in a tree. Dwarf mistletoe is a holoparasite and it attaches itself to other trees, causing a witch"s broom growth on the tree, and begins stealing its food, commonly conifers tree. An excessive amount of sunlight is a problem to plants as well. Plants have leaves with small surface areas. Buttercups has angled leaves in addition to a small surface area, to combat the sunlight.