Parasitic <i>Cuscuta australis</i> Plant Connecting Two Soybean Plants (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Parasitic <i>Cuscuta australis</i> Plant Connecting Two Soybean Plants

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The host plants exchange ecologically important information about herbivore attack via a parasitic network.

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Jingxiong Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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