Seed dispersal: the blind bomb maker
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Measuring Gene Expression in Bombarded Barley Aleurone Layers with Increased Throughput
Published on: March 30, 2018
1Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. kevin.burns@vuw.ac.nz
Current Biology : CB
|July 14, 2012
Abstract:
A recent study shows that a desert shrub uses a 'mustard oil bomb' to regulate the behaviour of seed-predating rodents - transforming these predators into mutualistic seed dispersers.

