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  • Fungus, Get Off My Lawn!

    03/02/2013 9:26:09 PM PST · by neverdem · 3 replies
    ScienceNOW ^ | 1 March 2013 | Elizabeth Pennisi
    Enlarge Image Greedy guest. Fungi (blue lines) living among the cells of a grass cause that plant to make more seeds and less pollen. Credit: Jennifer Rudgers Life demands tradeoffs, and plants are no exception. Virginia wildrye, common on U.S. prairies and rangelands, often plays host to a fungus that helps this grass grow. But the plant pays a price. Researchers have discovered that infected plants produce less pollen than their noninfected counterparts. Instead, the fungus causes the rye grass to make extra seeds, which transmit the fungus to the next generation and new locations. This is the first...