Distinct cytological mechanisms for food availability in three Inga ingoides (Fabaceae)—Cecidomyiidae gall systems

Aniplant or plantimal? Superorganisms cross borders

“…The work by Bragança et al (2021) deals with insect galls, amazing structures induced by plant-parasitic insects by hijacking signalling of the host to produce an intricately structured new structure, which has the purpose to provide plant metabolites to the developing larvae. This must not only include signals that suppress plant immunity, but also signals that reorchestrate developmental processes of the host plant in a manner that a novel organ develops that is not foreseen in the genetic programme of the host.…”