[PCA] Fwd: Orchid adding bird perch for c... (sciencedaily.com)

[De Angelis, Patricia]

*Orchid adding bird perch for crossing ensures reproduction*
Jan. 8, 2013 — Chinese researchers have solved the mystery of the function
of sheaths in flowering orchids. In a paper published in PLOS ONE, the team
led by Zhong-Jian Liu at the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of
Shenzhen and Laiqiang Huang at Tsinghua University found the perch to be
essential to orchid reproduction.

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 <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130108091347.htm>
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130108091347.htm
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