![]() They also help myrmecophytes survive by harvesting the seeds and returning them to their nests. The plants get nutrients from the ant's nitrogen-rich debris by breaking it down and absorbing it through their wall linings or adventitious roots.Īnts can bite and sting any possible predators, and keep their plant partner in check by pruning encroaching vines of their competing neighbours, giving them more access to light and nutrients. These extrafloral nectaries can provide sugar to feed resident ants in myrmecophytes with domatia or can serve to attract ant visitors in plants without domatia.Īnts help myrmecophytes to get food from a much wider area than their roots can cover.
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