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Plants use mycorrhizae network to defend against pests

13 years ago

This was just too cool not to share with other legume lovers:

New science suggests that plants use networks of mycorrhizae to communicate with each other to simultaneously mount a community defense against pests:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22462855

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