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Parasitic Mistletoes of the Genera Scurrula and Viscum: From Bench to Bedside [PDF]
Molecules, 2016 The mistletoes, stem hemiparasites of Asia and Europe, have been used as medicinal herbs for many years and possess sophisticated systems to obtain nutrients from their host plants.
Ya Chee Lim +8 more
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Biology and resource acquisition of mistletoes, and the defense responses of host plants [PDF]
Ecological Processes, 2022 Background Mistletoes are the most successful group of obligatory hemi-parasitic flowering plants that attach to the host via haustorium for obtaining water and minerals.
Meseret Muche +2 more
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Ecology of neotropical mistletoes: an important canopy-dwelling component of Brazilian ecosystems Ecologia de ervas-de-passarinho Neotropicais: um importante componente do dossel de ecossistemas brasileiros [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2012 Mistletoes have been studied in temperate countries regularly because they can be pests of cultivated plants and forest plantations. In comparison with temperate habitats, little is known about the ecology of mistletoes in the Neotropics.
Rafael Arruda +9 more
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Predicting the current and future distributions of Australian Loranthaceae mistletoes [PDF]
Global Ecology and ConservationMistletoes are branch parasites of trees and shrubs, occur world-wide, and are considered keystone species in many forest communities. They have complex interactions with seed dispersers, pollinators, and animals that use them for shelter, and contribute
Carol A. Wilson, Kenneth Trang
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Rodriguésia, 2021 We present results related to the taxonomic revision of Psittacanthus (Loranthaceae) for “Flora do Brasil 2020”. Three new records were found: Psittacanthus kempffii to Rondônia, P. lasianthus to Roraima, and P. truncatus to Mato Grosso.
Greta Aline Dettke +1 more
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Indonesian Journal of Medical Laboratory Science and Technology, 2022 Tea and mango mistletoes have to lower blood pressure by improving oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction. The flavonoid compounds found in these two mistletoes act as antihypertensives. Hypertension is a risk factors that influences the incidence
Durrotul Hasanah +2 more
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BMJ, 1981 A 49-year-old woman presented with nausea, general malaise, and a dull ache in the right hypochondrium. Liver biopsy showed slight inflammatory-cell infiltration, and results of liver function tests suggested hepatitis. Hepatitis B surface antigen was not detected, and a cholecystogram was normal.
J, Harvey, D G, Colin-Jones
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Notes and QueriesIt's not difficult to see why mistletoe has always impressed people. It is a parasite, so it appears miraculously in trees without any visible seed or soil. It is green and alive when most other plants are at their lowest ebb. It is not, of course, the only evergreen plant. But it is curious that it used to be rigorously excluded from British churches,
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Biotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology, 2020 Mistletoes are hemiparasitic macroparasite plants which interfere with trees and other wild plants in nutrient acquisition. As the plant has low leaf water potential, it draws water from teak wood tissues during the deciduous stage of the teak host ...
Zainal Muttaqin +4 more
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Four new neotropical Trioza species associated with Loranthaceae (Santalales) and comments on mistletoe inhabiting psyllids (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) [PDF]
Alpine Entomology, 2017 Four new Trioza species associated with mistletoes are described, diagnosed and illustrated from Brazil and Chile. They are monophagous on the Loranthaceae Struthanthus uraguensis (Trioza struthanthi sp.
Daniel Burckhardt +2 more
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