CRISPR gene editing to improve crop resistance to parasitic plants [PDF]
Frontiers in Genome Editing, 2023 Parasitic plants pose a significant threat to global agriculture, causing substantial crop losses and hampering food security. In recent years, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene-editing technology has emerged as a ...
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The Enigma of Interspecific Plasmodesmata: Insight From Parasitic Plants [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Parasitic plants live in intimate physical connection with other plants serving as their hosts. These host plants provide the inorganic and organic compounds that the parasites need for their propagation.
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Parasitic Plants—Potential Vectors of Phytopathogens [PDF]
PathogensParasitic plants represent a peculiar group of semi- or fully heterotrophic plants, possessing the ability to extract water, minerals, and organic compounds from other plants. All parasitic plants, either root or stem, hemi- or holoparasitic, establish a
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Do native parasitic plants cause more damage to exotic invasive hosts than native non-invasive hosts? An implication for biocontrol. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Field studies have shown that native, parasitic plants grow vigorously on invasive plants and can cause more damage to invasive plants than native plants. However, no empirical test has been conducted and the mechanism is still unknown.
Junmin Li, Zexin Jin, Wenjing Song
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Host Resistance to Parasitic Plants—Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives [PDF]
Plants, 2023 Parasitic flowering plants represent a diverse group of angiosperms, ranging from exotic species with limited distribution to prominent weeds, causing significant yield losses in agricultural crops.
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Mitochondrial genome evolution in parasitic plants [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Parasitic plants rely on their host to cover their nutritional requirements either for their entire life or a smaller part of it. Depending on the level of parasitism, a proportional reduction on the plastid genome has been found.
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Mitochondria in parasitic plants
Mitochondrion, 2020 Plant mitochondrial genomes are renowned for their structural complexity, extreme variation in size and mutation rates, and ability to incorporate foreign DNA. Parasitic flowering plants are no exception, and the close association between parasite and host may even enhance the likelihood of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between them. Recent studies on
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Molecular translocation between parasitic plants and their hosts [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceParasitic plants are a special group deriving their nutrients from another plant, some of which such as witchweeds (Striga spp.) and broomrapes (Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.) are referred as weeds responsible for severe crop losses in agriculture.
Yuchao Chen +7 more
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Plant Parasites under Pressure: Effects of Abiotic Stress on the Interactions between Parasitic Plants and Their Hosts [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 Lyuben Zagorchev +2 more
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Genomic comparison of non-photosynthetic plants from the family Balanophoraceae with their photosynthetic relatives [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The plant family Balanophoraceae consists entirely of species that have lost the ability to photosynthesize. Instead, they obtain nutrients by parasitizing other plants.
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