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'Not just hot water': Marine heat waves can create toxic relationship between seagrasses and microbes

Heat stress from marine heat waves can create a toxic relationship between seagrasses and a hidden ecosystem of bacteria, transforming a previously beneficial co-existence between marine plants and microbes into a harmful one, a University of Sydney and UNSW study has found. The research is publishe...

'Not just hot water': Marine heat waves can create toxic relationship between seagrasses and microbes
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Heat stress from marine heat waves can create a toxic relationship between seagrasses and a hidden ecosystem of bacteria, transforming a previously beneficial co-existence between marine plants and microbes into a harmful one, a University of Sydney and UNSW study has found. The research is published in New Phytologist.

Originally published at Phys.org

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