Plants cheat too: A new species of fungus-parasitizing orchid
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 10:31
in Biology & Nature
Plants usually produce their own nutrients by using sun energy, but not all of them! A new 'cheater' species of orchid from Japan, lives off nutrients obtained via a special kind of symbiosis with fungi. The study was published in the open access journal PhytoKeys.