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2017
December
Neat News 2017-361 (added 2017-12-27)
Mutualist Communities of Tomatoes
Public Domain by Scott Bauer (NRCS Photo Gallery)
| Plants have to find a balance between repelling herbivores and attracting pollinators. It has now been found out that wild Peruvian tomatoes manage to do that in a way that some plants - at an individual detriment - repel strongly so that others benefit from this and can attract more easily pollinators. As a consequence the species is more resilient to herbivores than previously thought. |