RT @NKWhiteman: Mistletoes growing on same host compete with one another for host water and nutrients! Whichever is growing more upstream o…
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RT @NKWhiteman: Mistletoes growing on same host compete with one another for host water and nutrients! Whichever is growing more upstream o…
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Mistletoes growing on same host compete with one another for host water and nutrients! Whichever is growing more upstream of xylem flow has advantage. How do we know? By experimentally removing mistletoes 🪚. Work led by Paul Nabity, with @barrongafford. ht
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@vsbuffalo Yes they are really cool, although both types photosynthesize, phloem parasites do less of it than xylem parasites. Here is the intra-host competition experiment former postdoc Paul Nabity led that gives insight into the source-sink dynamics: ht