Sentences with phrase «form mutualistic»
Members of the bean family (legumes) and some other kinds of plants form mutualistic symbiotic relationships with nitrogen fixing bacteria.
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We conducted a series of observations and experiments to test whether weta form mutualistic partnerships with fleshy - fruited plants as seed dispersers, similar to small mammals elsewhere in the world.
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The mutualistic association between acacia plants and the ants that live on them is an excellent example: The plants provide food and accommodation in the form of food bodies and nectar as well as hollow thorns which can be used as nests.
These microbes form close, often mutualistic, associations with their plant hosts.
They found that in nutrient - poor conditions, both strains did better together than they did alone, forming more mutualistic relationships in which each strain depended heavily on the other.