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Mechanisms of Fungiculture in Ambrosia Beetles (Farming in Beetles)
Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2017,
Farming insects are one of the most exciting examples for the success of symbioses in nature. Ants, termites and ambrosia beetles started to grow fungi for food 40–60 million years before the rise of human agriculture. Research on fungus-farming ants has revealed the association with nitrogen-fixing bacteria as fungus fertilizers and the application of antibiotics produced by symbiotic bacteria to ...
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Herbivore induced plant defences: the evolution and genetic basis of their specificity (Induced Defence)
Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2015,
Herbivore induced defence is widespread in plants and are likely to be species-specific. The specificity has been suggested to be mediated by herbivore associated elicitors (HAE), however, how such specificity evolved and what are the underlying genetic bases are little understood. Species of genus Nicotiana offered a suitable system to address these questions, because they distributed in great ra ...
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