Plant guttation provides nutrient-rich food for insects
Plant guttation is a fluid from xylem and phloem sap secreted at the margins of leaves frommany plant species. All previous studies have considered guttation as awater source for insects. Here,we hypothesized that plant guttation serves as a reliable and nutrient-rich food source for insects with...
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Royal Society
2020
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6597 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1080 |
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