Many plants benefit from interactions with mutualistic herbivores such as pollinators or seed dispersers and have evolved defenses that only target harmful herbivores. For example, chili seeds ...

When an altered form of a virus is injected into a banana sapling, the virus' genetic material quickly becomes a permanent part of the plant's cells ... products. For example, Australian ...

Here are eight examples of mutualistic relationships ... In Madagascar, some geckos have been observed lapping up the honeydew produced by plant hoppers. This may be mutualism, with the gecko's ...

Plants play a few very important roles. For example, they provide us with food and they even help us to breathe. JOHNNY P LANT: Plants are amazing, animals depend upon them for grazing from the ...

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About 1% of flowering plants (around 4,000 species) are parasitic. Read on to discover 10 interesting examples of parasitic plants, where they can be found and how they steal nutrients from other ...

Cold manures are low in nutrients and release less heat as they break down, posing less risk of burning your plants. Examples are cow, goat, and sheep – ruminant animals that regurgitate and ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

We used a range of species including trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, bulbs and wildflowers. All plants have a two-part botanical name made up of the genus and the species, for example, Rosa ...

These are known as self-pollinating, hermaphroditic plants. Examples include tomatoes and eggplants. Diane Kuthy, from How To ...