Nipped in the bud

Tim Lincoln

Nature, 1998, vol. 392, issue 6673, 229-229

Abstract: There are plenty of examples of mutually beneficial ant-plant relationships, but newly published work provides an example of such a relationship that has gone awry. In this case, the ants ‘castrate’ the plant by destroying the reproductive structures. The result has a severe effect on the plant's reproductive capacity but has the advantage, for the ant, of delaying senesence of the vegetative parts of the plant — which thereby provide more nesting places. The question then is how the relationship is sustained.

Date: 1998
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