Scientists from Kiel and Plymouth show for the first time health-promoting microbial manipulation in aquatic plantsThe composition of the microbial community living in or on a larger organism plays an important role for its health. Humans and their intestinal flora are a good example of this. Two biologists from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK) and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany) have now shown for the first time that an aquatic macrophyte uses surface-based chemicals to specifically cultivate microbes on its surface which protect the plant against diseases. The study was published today in the international Journal of Ecology.
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