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Aegle
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#1 Posted : 4/27/2014 6:50:29 PM
Thought this was to cool not to share... Zombie plants.

Wily Bacteria Create Zombie Plants


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cave paintings
#2 Posted : 5/5/2014 8:16:18 AM
Oh cool! Aegle strikes again with an awesome article. Makes you muse and wonder if the reverse ever happens.. that a bacteria alters a plants leaves to go to flowering more often, in order to attract more pollinators and thus transport of itself. Or if any pollinator interactions ever originated as such. Or if they have ever altered flower structure/scents with the result of an increase in dispersal. Wut? I get to speculating after a beer or two. I'm sure the bacterial/plant interactions run deeper than we know.. along with the endophytic fungal interactions too. A very unexplored and fascinating horizon of study. It was some crazy number I heard in my plant biology course recently.. atleast over 50% of plants have fungal endophytes! makes you wonder who's producing what when it comes to alkaloids and things. Anyhow, thanks for the share!!
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Aegle
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#3 Posted : 5/5/2014 1:39:23 PM
cave paintings wrote:
Oh cool! Aegle strikes again with an awesome article. Makes you muse and wonder if the reverse ever happens.. that a bacteria alters a plants leaves to go to flowering more often, in order to attract more pollinators and thus transport of itself. Or if any pollinator interactions ever originated as such. Or if they have ever altered flower structure/scents with the result of an increase in dispersal. Wut? I get to speculating after a beer or two. I'm sure the bacterial/plant interactions run deeper than we know.. along with the endophytic fungal interactions too. A very unexplored and fascinating horizon of study. It was some crazy number I heard in my plant biology course recently.. atleast over 50% of plants have fungal endophytes! makes you wonder who's producing what when it comes to alkaloids and things. Anyhow, thanks for the share!!


Cave Paintings

Thank you for your beautiful and fascinating musings... The natural world is an incredible place which is filled with such mystery and wonder. I think its pretty interesting that over 50% plants have fungal endophytes, truly amazing.


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hardboiled
#4 Posted : 5/5/2014 4:49:36 PM
Just crazy ingenuity! Like those Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus turning ants in to spore dispensers.Stop
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Aegle
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#5 Posted : 5/23/2014 12:03:52 PM
hardboiled wrote:
Just crazy ingenuity! Like those Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus turning ants in to spore dispensers.Stop


Hardboiled

Indeed the ingenuity of nature is truly incredible.


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