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Plant ecology: Vanilla lures both insects and mammals to disperse its seeds and fruits

CURRENT BIOLOGY (2023)

First evidence for multimodal animal seed dispersal in orchids

Adam P. Karremans et al.

Summary: Identifying seed dispersal and persistence mechanisms is an important goal in ecology, and animal-mediated dispersal is a crucial form of dissemination in many plant communities. Orchids, predominantly adapted to wind dispersal, also exhibit exceptions such as bird, cricket, and mammal dispersal. Through in situ and ex situ experimentation, it has been shown for the first time that orchids in the Vanilla genus exhibit multimodal seed dispersal mechanisms, with both external and internal animal dispersal playing critical roles.

CURRENT BIOLOGY (2023)

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