Fungus-growing ants have been cultivating crops for 50 million years

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

Brooks HaysCOPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- New research by entemologists reveals that a lineage of South American ants use fungal enzymes to break down leaf fragments.

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