Cuscuta species: Model organisms for haustorium development in stem holoparasitic plants
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Parasitic plants are notorious for causing serious agricultural losses in many countries. Specialized intrusive organs, haustoria, confer on parasitic plants the ability to acquire water and nutrients from their host plants.
Min-Yao Jhu, Neelima R. Sinha
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Rediscovery of Thismia caudata after 129 years and synopsis of other achlorophyllous herbs from the Pico do Marumbi State Park and buffer zone in Piraquara, Paraná, Brazil [PDF]
Rodriguésia, 2023 The Atlantic Forest is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The Pico do Marumbi State Park is home to an evergreen ombrophilous forest with areas of transition to the Araucaria moist forest.
Román Carlos Ríos +1 more
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Frontiers in Agronomy, 2022 Crenate broomrape, Orobanche crenata Forskal belongs to the family Orobanchaceae. It is a root holoparasitic weed devoid of chlorophyll and entirely dependent on host plants for its growth requirement.
Takele Negewo +3 more
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The First Plastid Genome of the Holoparasitic Genus Prosopanche (Hydnoraceae)
Plants, 2020 Plastomes of parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plants show different degrees of reduction depending on the plants’ level of heterotrophy and host dependence in comparison to photoautotrophic sister species, and the amount of time since heterotrophic ...
Matthias Jost +4 more
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Acta Agrobotanica, 2014 The paper presents the current distribution of Orobanche caryophyllacea Sm. in Poland based on a critical revision of herbarium and literature data as well as the results of my field studies.
Renata Piwowarczyk
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Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series E: Food Technology, 2020 Some holoparasitic species can become cultivated plants due to their unique chemical composition. A lot of bioactive contents are characteristic for them.
Piwowarczyk Renata +4 more
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135 years in the shadows: rediscovery of Lophophytum weddellii Hook. f. (Santalales, Balanophoraceae) in Colombia [PDF]
Check ListThe rediscovery of Lophophytum weddellii Hook. f. (Balanophoraceae) in Colombia is documented 135 years after its last record. Three individuals were found in Segovia, Antioquia, parasitizing Inga umbellifera (Vahl) Steud.
Santiago Guzmán-Guzmán +2 more
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High water availability increases the negative impact of a native hemiparasite on its non-native host [PDF]
, 2015 Environmental factors alter the impacts of parasitic plants on their hosts. However, there have been no controlled studies on how water availability modulates stem hemiparasites' effects on hosts.
A Mahapatro +4 more
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Morphogenesis is highly aberrant in the vegetative body of the holoparasite Lophophytum leandrii (Balanophoraceae): All typical vegetative organs are absent and many tissues are highly modified [PDF]
, 2010 The vegetative body of Lophophytum leandrii is a ‘‘tuber’’ that completely lacks all vegetative organs typically found in photosynthetic plants. Tubers have a warty surface zone composed of parenchyma cells and brachysclereids; there is no epidermis. The
Gonzalez, Ana Maria, Mauseth, James D.
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Horizontal transfer of expressed genes in a parasitic flowering plant [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Recent studies have shown that plant genomes have potentially undergone rampant horizontal gene transfer (HGT). In plant parasitic systems HGT appears to be facilitated by the intimate physical association between the parasite and its host ...
Bomblies, Kirsten +7 more
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