Mitigating the Mistletoe Menace: Biotechnological and Smart Management Approaches [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Mistletoes have been considered a keystone resource for biodiversity, as well as a remarkable source of medicinal attributes that attract pharmacologists.
Gaurav Mudgal +6 more
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There Is No Carbon Transfer Between Scots Pine and Pine Mistletoe but the Assimilation Capacity of the Hemiparasite Is Constrained by Host Water Use Under Dry Conditions [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Pine mistletoe is a hemiparasitic shrub that can produce its own photosynthates. There is a lack of knowledge about the interaction of mistletoe and host under varying environmental condition that might influence carbon gain and allocation.
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Exposing the error hidden in plain sight: A critique of Calder's (1983) group selectionist seed‐dispersal hypothesis for mistletoe “mimicry” of host plants [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Some mistletoe species (Loranthaceae) resemble their host plants to a striking degree. Various mechanisms have been proposed for the developmental origins of novel traits that cause mistletoes to appear similar to their hosts, as well as for the adaptive
Kyle E. Harms +3 more
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Parasite–host network analysis provides insights into the evolution of two mistletoe lineages (Loranthaceae and Santalaceae) [PDF]
Plant Diversity, 2023 Mistletoes are ecologically important parasitic plants, with > 1600 species from five lineages worldwide. Mistletoe lineages exhibit distinct patterns of species diversification and host specificity, however, the mechanisms underlying these differences ...
Jin Zhao +6 more
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Phytochemical Characterization of Phoradendron bollanum and Viscum album subs. austriacum as Mexican Mistletoe Plants with Antimicrobial Activity [PDF]
Plants, 2021 In Mexico, mistletoes have several applications in traditional medicine due to the great variety of compounds with biological activities that have not been characterized to date.
José Daniel García-García +12 more
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The Antioxidant Activity of Mistletoes (Viscum album and Other Species) [PDF]
Plants, 2023 In addition to the European mistletoe, Viscum album, which is the most known and utilized one, there are several species commonly known as mistletoe.
Marcello Nicoletti
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Dwarf Mistletoes (Arceuthobium, Viscaceae) of North America: Classification Systems, Phylogenetic Relationships, and Taxonomic Characteristics [PDF]
PlantsArceuthobium—the dwarf mistletoes—is a clearly defined genus of hemi-parasitic plants in the family Viscaceae. The genus occurs throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere; however, the greatest concentration of species and subspecies occurs within ...
Shawn C. Kenaley, Robert L. Mathiasen
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The Southernmost Known Population of the Monito Del Monte, Dromiciops gliroides [PDF]
Ecol EvolA range extension for a relict south American marsupial. ABSTRACT The monito del monte (genus Dromiciops) is a small arboreal marsupial endemic to the temperate rainforests of southern South America, and the sole extant representative of the order Microbiotheria. This lineage, considered a sister group of Australian marsupials, is of great evolutionary,
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The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Psittacanthus schiedeanus (Cham. & Schltdl.) G.Don. (Santalales: Loranthaceae), the first plastome of a mistletoe species in the Psittacantheae tribe [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. ResourcesPsittacanthus schiedeanus (Cham. & Schltdl.) G.Don., 1834, is a mistletoe species in the Loranthaceae, characteristic of the canopy in cloud forest edges and widely distributed in northern Mesoamerica.
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Range and Elevational Shifts of Mistletoes Under Future Climate Change Scenarios [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionClimate change is reshaping species' geographic distributions, with range shifts to higher elevations and latitudes. Parasitic plants like keystone mistletoes are particularly vulnerable to climate change because of their obligate dependence on host ...
Antonio Acini Vásquez‐Aguilar +4 more
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