Leaf-dwelling fungi enhance black poplar chemical defenses and mediate multi-trophic insect interactions In a new study published in Ecology Letters, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel, Germany, report on the influence of an endophytic fungus of the ...

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