Orchid adding bird perch for crossing ensures reproduction
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
Chinese researchers have solved the mystery of the function of sheaths in flowering orchids. In a paper published in PLOS ONE, the team led by Zhong-Jian Liu at the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen and Laiqiang Huang at Tsinghua University found the perch to be essential to orchid reproduction.