Flavonoids promote haustoria formation in the root parasite Triphysaria...

Plant Physiology;  February 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Triphysaria versicolor, Parasitic plants in the Scrophulariaceae...released from potential host roots (Chang and Lynn, 1986...Fate and Lynn, 1996). Parasitic plants in the Scrophulariaceae...attach the parasite and host roots, they invade host...and interpreted ...

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Ecology;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Indeed, a vast amount of information on parasitic plants has been published in the 28 years...to fill the gap since Kuijt's text. Parasitic plants has, at least to some degree, helped...In addition to the introduction to parasitic plants by Musselman and Press, the book consists...

PARASITIC PLANT

Young Students Learning Library;      161 words ......other live plants or animals are called parasitic plants. Almost all parasitic plants lack chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is the green...Because they cannot make their own food, parasitic plants get their nourishment by taking it from...

Parasite impacts on host communities: plant parasitism in a California...

Ecology;  December 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......groups of generalist parasites, the parasitic plants, has rarely been studied by ecologists...California coastal prairie community. Parasitic plants are likely to play an important role...Seel et al. 1993). Further, some parasitic plants demonstrate preferences for particular...

Parasitic plant gets more than a meal.

Science News for Kids;  August 16, 2008 ;     530 words ......That finding hints at a means for parasitic plants to coordinate growth with their hosts...from the point of view of controlling parasitic plants, comments James Westwood of Virginia...bit like the modern art version of parasitic plants: messy, perhaps vulgar and with a...

Payback time for parasites.(Plant parasites)(damage to crops )(Brief...

Chemistry and Industry;  October 16, 2006 ;     110 words ...Parasitic plants that cause millions of pounds of damage to crops could be deterred...host plants, such as wheat, produced volatiles that repelled the parasitic plants. The authors believe that these difficult-to-control parasites could...

Localized Hormone Fluxes and Early Haustorium Development in the...

Plant Physiology;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......in haustorium development and that parasitic plants recruit established plant developmental...1995). A single feature common to all parasitic plants is the ability to develop invasive...is the defining characteristic of parasitic plants, distinguishing them from epiphytic...

haustorium

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      40 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 haus|to|ri|um (hos tor'e m) n., -ri|a (-) a rootlike outgrowth in certain parasitic plants, through which food is absorbed from the host --haus|to'ri|al (-l) adj. Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Thieving plants hack into biggest fungal network. (Underground...

Science News;  September 28, 2002 ;     448 words ......connections. Roots of three kinds of parasitic plants with no chlorophyll of their own have...Scientists suspect that 400 or so parasitic plants also tap into fungi for food collected...from the roots of three groups of parasitic plants: the lily-related Arachnitis uniflora...

dodder(2)

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      46 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 dod|der(2) (dd'r) n. any of a genus (Cuscuta) of parasitic plants of the morning-glory family, lacking leaves, roots, and chlorophyll, but having special suckers for drawing nourishment from the...

fungi

A Dictionary of Geography;      46 words ...fungi Important in soil science, fungi are a group of simple parasitic plants. Fungi are lacking in chlorophyll and therefore cannot photosynthesize. They attack a wide range of organic residues, such as the...

broomrape

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      63 words ......NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 broom|rape (-rap) n. any of a genus (Orobanche) of the broomrape family of leafless, fleshy, parasitic plants growing on the roots of other plants--adj. designating a family (Orobanchaceae, order Scrophulariales) of dicotyledonous...

Conventional and biotechnological approaches for control of parasitic...

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......physiology and interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts, taxonomy, and the...destructive agricultural pests. Today, parasitic plants from 20 families have been recognized...Orobanche and Striga; Yoder 1997). Parasitic plants vary widely in their degree of host...

A mixed diet improves performance and herbivore resistance of a parasitic...

Ecology;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......parasitic plant. Because tissues of parasitic plants and their hosts are usually very similar...host species, simultaneously. Because parasitic plants do obtain somewhat different types...strongly affect herbivores feeding on parasitic plants (Marvier 1996a), using multiple hosts...

DON'T MISS

The Independent - London;  February 21, 2003 ;     72 words ......educational and the seriously squeamish, with daily sessions getting under the skin of maggots, lice, tapeworms, and even parasitic plants. Ages 12- plus will squirm at these organisms' cut-throat tenacity for survival, as they feast on their chosen host. Cromwell...