CRISPR gene editing to improve crop resistance to parasitic plants. [PDF]
Front Genome Ed, 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 ...
Jhu MY, Ellison EE, Sinha NR.
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The Enigma of Interspecific Plasmodesmata: Insight From Parasitic Plants. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 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.
Fischer K +4 more
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Host Resistance to Parasitic Plants-Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives. [PDF]
Plants (Basel), 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.
Albanova IA +5 more
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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
Savov S +5 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.
Mikhail I. Schelkunov +2 more
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Mitochondrial genome evolution in parasitic plants. [PDF]
BMC Evol Biol, 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.
Zervas A, Petersen G, Seberg O.
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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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Effects of Parasitism on the Competitive Ability of Invasive and Native Species
Life, 2022 Parasitic plants can often seriously harm host plants and, thus, alter competitive dominance between hosts and neighbouring species. However, whether and how parasitic plants differently affect the competitive abilities of invasive and the native plants ...
Yongge Yuan, Junmin Li
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Malaria Journal, 2020 Background Malaria is a major public health problem in Cameroon. The study of the genetic diversity within parasite population is essential for understanding the mechanism underlying malaria pathology and to determine parasite clones profile in an ...
Theresia Njuabe Metoh +5 more
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Synopsis of Dendrophthora and Phoradendron (Santalaceae) in Brazil
Rodriguésia, 2021 Dendrophthora and Phoradendron are neotropical genera of mistletoes belonging to the tribe Phoradendreae. The phylogenetic relationships between these two genera are still not entirely understood and, morphologically, Dendrophthora differs from ...
Greta Aline Dettke +1 more
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