parasitic-plants
Parasitic plants derive some or all of their nutrients from a host plant using a specialized organ called the haustorium, which taps directly into the host's xylem, phloem, or both. This unique strategy makes them powerful models for studying plant-plant signaling, nutrient transfer, and vascular connectivity at a molecular level. Understanding their biology is also critical for agriculture, since many parasitic species pose major threats to crop yields worldwide.
open_in_new WikipediaGlucosylation-mediated kin avoidance inspires parasite-resistant crops.
Dodder vines and witchweeds silently drain the life from garden vegetables and farm fields every ...
Dawn of a new era for parasitic plant biology.
Dodder, that orange thread-like tangle strangling plants in your garden beds, and the ghost-like ...
Progress and prospects of parasitic plant biodiversity genomics.
Witchweed and broomrape, the vampires of the plant world, already devastate staple crops across A...
Editing strigolactone biosynthesis genes in tomato reveals novel ph...
If you've ever grown tomatoes near fields plagued by broomrape — a rootless parasite that latches...
Strigolactone-mediated architecture regulation and stress resilienc...
The scraggly, over-branched tomato sprawling across your raised bed and the compact one that outp...
Interplant signal transduction between dodder (Cuscuta) and their hosts.
That stringy orange vine strangling the plants in your garden bed is doing something stranger tha...
Photosynthetic activity in the heterotrophic plant genus Cuscuta (C...
That orange spaghetti-like vine strangling your tomatoes or black-eyed Susans isn't just a thief ...
An integrated framework to elucidate mechanisms underlying host-bra...
Tomatoes in your garden or at a local farm market face a stealthy underground threat — a parasiti...
The role of hormones in parasitic plant infection.
Witchweed and broomrape — parasitic plants controlled partly by their own hormone chemistry — des...
