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Fungus-farming termites can protect their crop by confiningweeds with fungistatic soil boluses
Authors: Aanchal Panchal , Ruchira Sen, Renuka Agarwal , Anjali Rana ,Rhitoban Raychoudhury
DOI: 10.1126/science.adr2713
Highlights:
Fungus-farming termites, show targetted weed control and selectively respond to parasitic fungi instead of treating the entire fungal comb by encasing only the weed or weed-infested comb with generic fungistatic soil boluses.
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