Verbesina alternifolia Tolerance to the Holoparasite Cuscuta gronovii and the Impact of Drought [PDF]
Plants, 2013 Holoparasites are nonphotosynthetic plants that acquire all resources from hosts. The holoparasite Cuscuta gronovii is native to much of the US with a broad host range including Verbesina alternifolia, an understory perennial.
Victoria Borowicz, Bethany Evans
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Diverging repeatomes in holoparasitic Hydnoraceae uncover a playground of genome evolution. [PDF]
New PhytolSummary The transition from an autotrophic to a heterotrophic lifestyle is associated with numerous genomic changes. These often involve large genomic alterations, potentially driven by repetitive DNAs. Despite their recognized role in shaping plant genomes, the contribution of repetitive DNAs to parasitic plant genome evolution remains largely ...
Kim W +7 more
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Cytinus under the Microscope: Disclosing the Secrets of a Parasitic Plant [PDF]
Plants, 2021 Well over 1% of all flowering plants are parasites, obtaining all or part of the nutrients they need from other plants. Among this extremely heterogeneous assemblage, the Cytinaceae form a small group of holoparasites, with Cytinus as the main ...
Enrico Sanjust, Andrea C. Rinaldi
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Phylogeny and historical biogeography analysis support Caucasian and Mediterranean centres of origin of key holoparasitic Orobancheae (Orobanchaceae) lineages [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2021 The extensive diversity of the tribe Orobancheae, the most species-rich lineage of holoparasitic Orobanchaceae, is concentrated in the Caucasus and Mediterranean regions of the Old World.
Renata Piwowarczyk +8 more
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Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2016 Mixotrophic plants take - aside the sun’s energy - energetic advantage of organic sources which can be described as parasitism, probiosis, symbiosis or saprotrophism.
Heilmann, Hartmut
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Parasitic plant cultivation: examples, lessons learned and future directions
Sibbaldia, 2022 Parasitic plants contain some of the most bizarre and fascinating organisms in the plant kingdom. Yet they are notable for their absence from botanic gardens’ plant collections and conservation strategies.
Chris Thorogood +3 more
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Parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta and their interaction with susceptible and resistant host plants [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2015 By comparison with plant-microbe interaction, little is known about the interaction of parasitic plants with their hosts. Plants of the genus Cuscuta belong to the family of Cuscutaceae and comprise about 200 species, all of which live as stem ...
Bettina eKaiser +3 more
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The First Plastid Genome of the Holoparasitic Genus Prosopanche (Hydnoraceae) [PDF]
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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Plants, 2022 The Plicosepalus genus includes hemiparasitic mistletoe and belongs to the Loranthaceae family, and it has several medicinal uses. In the present study, we sequenced the complete plastomes of two species, Plicosepalus acaciae and Plicosepalus curviflorus,
Widad AL-Juhani +2 more
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Embryology in Helosis cayennensis (Balanophoraceae): Structure of Female Flowers, Fruit, Endosperm and Embryo [PDF]
Plants, 2019 Helosis cayennensis (Balanophoraceae s.str.) is a holoparasite characterised by aberrant vegetative bodies and tiny, reduced unisexual flowers. Here, we analysed the development of female flowers to elucidate their morpho-anatomy and the historical ...
Ana Maria Gonzalez +2 more
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