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Rhizoctonia solani has frequently been isolated from roots of the purple marsh orchid, Orchis purpurella, with which it may form a normal mycorrhizal symbiosis. Such endophytic strains and others isolated as pathogens from diseased crop plants often show symbiosis to O. purpurella protocorms in culture tests1,2. In the absence of any knowledge of the pectolytic potentiality of orchid endophytes a development of this investigation has been a comparative examination of the production of pectic enzymes by various Rhizoctonia strains in vitro.
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HADLEY, G., PEROMBELON, M. Production of Pectic Enzymes by Rhizoctonia solani and Orchid Endophytes. Nature 200, 1337 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/2001337a0
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