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Date:10/4/2007

tract insects to pollinate them.

The push-pull pollination seen in certain cycads may be an intermediate evolutionary stage on the path from plants using odors to repel herbivores, plants getting pollinated by wind-blown pollen, and plants using odors to attract pollinating insects.

It is thought that early on, these odors were used as a defensive mechanism to repel plant eaters, and that some early pollination systems evolved with insects that used the odors to find the plant, Terry says.


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