Sentences with phrase «plants 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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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.
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.
These microbes form close, often mutualistic, associations with their plant hosts.