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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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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Mitochondria in parasitic plants [PDF]
Mitochondrion, 2020 Plant mitochondrial genomes are renowned for their structural complexity, extreme variation in size and mutation rates, and ability to incorporate foreign DNA.
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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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Plant Parasites under Pressure: Effects of Abiotic Stress on the Interactions between Parasitic Plants and Their Hosts [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 Parasitic angiosperms, comprising a diverse group of flowering plants, are partially or fully dependent on their hosts to acquire water, mineral nutrients and organic compounds. Some have detrimental effects on agriculturally important crop plants.
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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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A roadmap of haustorium morphogenesis in parasitic plants [PDF]
J Exp Bot, 2023 Parasitic plants invade their host through their invasive organ, the haustorium. This organ connects to the vasculature of the host roots and hijacks water and nutrients.
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Strigolactones are chemoattractants for host tropism in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Parasitic plants are worldwide threats that damage major agricultural crops. To initiate infection, parasitic plants have developed the ability to locate hosts and grow towards them.
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Molecular dissection of haustorium development in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants [PDF]
Plant Physiol, 2021 Characterizing molecular aspects of haustorium development by parasitic plants in the Orobanchaceae family has identified hormone signaling/transport and specific genes as major players.
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