Plants rely on a complex microbiome to help them obtain nutrients from the soil, but most research on plants and soil microbes has focused on interactions that happen right at the edges of plant roots, said Paolina Garbeva, a microbial chemical ecologist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen. (insidescience.org)
Even though that's possible, says chemical ecologist Andre Kessler of Cornell University, we're still a long way from an actual application. (sciencemag.org)
«It's not surprising that chemicals in frass would be something that caterpillars have to worry about,» says chemical ecologist Jack Scultz at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. (sciencemag.org)