Claim · model-written summary
Ant handling may reduce the seed coat pathogenic community.
- Taxon
- myrmecochorous seedse0
- Treatment
- Ant handlinge0
- Interactor
- pathogenic communitye0pathogen
- Outcome
- reduction in the seed coat pathogenic communitye0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Ant handling may offer an additional benefit to myrmecochorous seeds via the reduction in the seed coat pathogenic community”
Title
Chloe L. Lash; Melissa A. Cregger; Anne M. Kinkopf; et al. Functional Ecology 2024. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14517
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Ant handling altered alpha diversity of seed coat fungal communities.
- Intervention effect Ant handling altered beta diversity of seed coat fungal communities.
- Intervention effect Ant-handled seeds had different overall fungal communities from non-ant-handled seeds.
- Intervention effect Ant-handled seeds had different plant pathogen communities from non-ant-handled seeds.
- Intervention effect Pathogenic fungal communities differed strongly between ant-handled and control seeds.
- Intervention effect Beta diversity between ant-handled and elaiosome-removed seeds was less dissimilar.