"Ballistic seed dispersal" is not something you see often in plants – and for good reason, perhaps, when you see just what the affectionately called squirting cucumber is capable of. Shunning external ...
Ant-mediated seed dispersal, or myrmecochory, represents a sophisticated mutualism between a wide range of flowering plants and ants. In this interaction, plants produce nutrient‐rich elaiosomes—a ...
Three summers ago, Kiel University biomechanist Stainslav Gorb, returned to Germany after a vacation in Turkey with a present for Ph.D. student Helen Gorges. "He came back and was like, 'Helen, I ...