Parasitic plants: physiology, development, signaling, and ecosystem interactions [PDF]
Plant Physiol, 2021 Parasitic plants connect to the vasculature of a host plant and take part or all of the water, nutrients, and assimilates they need to complete their life cycle. Parasitic plants represent a unique model for the evolution of intra-kingdom parasitism with
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Unprecedented organelle genomic variations in morning glories reveal independent evolutionary scenarios of parasitic plants and the diversification of plant mitochondrial complexes [PDF]
BMC Biol, 2022 The morning glories (Convolvulaceae) are distributed worldwide and produce economically important crops, medicinal herbs, and ornamentals. Members of this family are diverse in morphological characteristics and trophic modes, including the leafless ...
YAN-FENG Lin +8 more
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Pharmacological Properties of Parasitic Plants: Current Evidence and the Role of Parasitic Lifestyle [PDF]
PlantsParasitic plants represent a unique group of angiosperms that extract nutrients from host plants through specialized structures called haustoria.
Tzvetelina Zagorcheva +4 more
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Ethylene signaling mediates host invasion by parasitic plants [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Forward genetic analysis in a parasitic plant revealed that ethylene signaling is essential for host invasion. Parasitic plants form a specialized organ, a haustorium, to invade host tissues and acquire water and nutrients.
Song-Kui Cui +9 more
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Current Biology, 2018 In this quick guide, Twyford introduces the reader to parasitic plants, explaining how they steal nutrients from host plants and how this lifestyle has evolved multiple times in plants.
A. Twyford
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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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Genomic and Epigenomic Mechanisms of the Interaction between Parasitic and Host Plants
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 Parasitic plants extract nutrients from the other plants to finish their life cycle and reproduce. The control of parasitic weeds is notoriously difficult due to their tight physical association and their close biological relationship to their hosts ...
Vasily Ashapkin, Lyuben Zagorchev
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The Effect of Virulence and Resistance Mechanisms on the Interactions between Parasitic Plants and Their Hosts [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2020 Parasitic plants have a unique heterotrophic lifestyle based on the extraction of water and nutrients from host plants. Some parasitic plant species, particularly those of the family Orobanchaceae, attack crops and cause substantial yield losses.
Lu-Yang Hu +6 more
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Medicinal Plants as an Alternative to Control Poultry Parasitic Diseases
Life, 2022 Parasitic infections are a major public health concern affecting millions of people universally. This review elaborates on the potential impacts of plants and their bioactive components that have been widely used in the cure of several parasitic ...
Rao Abbas, Ruofeng Yan, Kun Li
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Molecular Dialog Between Parasitic Plants and Their Hosts
Annual Review of Phytopathology, 2019 Parasitic plants steal sugars, water, and other nutrients from host plants through a haustorial connection. Several species of parasitic plants such as witchweeds (Striga spp.) and broomrapes (Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.) are major biotic constraints ...
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