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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album
Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 701-739, March 2023., 2023 Mistletoe is a charismatic parasite of tree crowns with a long history of folklore and connections with Christmas celebrations. This, and its need for light, helps explain why it is most common in human‐made habitats across Europe. Once thought to benignly take just water and nutrients from its host it is now known to take carbon as well which can lead
Peter A. Thomas +5 more
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Neglected plant parasites: Mitrastemonaceae
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 5, Issue 1, Page 5-13, January 2023., 2023 Mitrastemonaceae are a remarkable family of parasitic flowering plants. The two species that make up this family have a disjunct distribution and a peculiar appearance. Both are devoid of roots, stems, and regular leaves and live inside the roots of their host plants for most of their life cycle.
Luiza Teixeira‐Costa, Kenji Suetsugu
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Consuming and consumed: Biotic interactions of African mistletoes across different trophic levels
Biotropica, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 1103-1119, July 2022., 2022 Mistletoes, as perennial hemiparasitic angiosperms that parasitize woody plants, are an important component of the African flora, yet little is known about the composition and function of the organismal communities associated with these plants in Africa.
Yuliya Krasylenko +6 more
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Forest Pathology, Volume 51, Issue 5, October 2021., 2021 Abstract The virulence of 15 endophytic and pathogenic Sphaeropsis sapinea strains was tested towards Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). Two‐thirds of the strains had been isolated from Scots pines with varying health status: five isolates originated from healthy tissue (endophytic fungal stage) and five from diseased tissue (pathogenic stage).
Johanna Bußkamp +4 more
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ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías, 2023 Phoradendron nervosum is a hemiparasitic shrub with a wide distribution area. Despite this, the ecology of natural history of this species is not well studied. Host species of P.
Martín Carrera +2 more
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Revista Peruana de Biología, 2013 La familia Viscaceae es reconocida en el Perú por presentar dos géneros y 69 especies (Brako & Zarucchi, 1993; Ulloa Ulloa et al., 2004), todos arbustos parásitos.
Blanca León
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Taxonomic revision of an Antillean group of mistletoes (Dendrophthora, Viscaceae) present in Cuba
Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid, 2022 A taxonomic review of Dendrophthora brachyclada, D. cupressoides, D. marmeladensis, D. moniliformis, D. picotensis and D. podocarpicola in Cuba was conducted through the direct comparison and measurement of vegetative and reproductive characters, and ...
Eddy Martínez Quesada
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Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1991 There are at least four plant hemiparasites [=mistletoes, viz. Viscaceae (3 species), Loranthaceae (1 species)] within the Addo Elephant National Park. Highly selective utilisation of these plant parasites by large browsing animals has resulted in severe
J.J. Midgley, D. Joubert
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, 2021 FIGURE 2. Map of known locations of Phoradendron killipii.Published as part of Murillo-Serna, Jhon S., Dettke, Greta A., Carmona-Gallego, Isabel & Alzate, Fernando, 2021, Novelties in Phoradendron killipii (Viscaceae): an endemic and rare species from ...
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New Phytologist, Volume 225, Issue 4, Page 1461-1469, February 2020., 2020 Summary Plants produce a wide array of secretions both above and below ground. Known as mucilages or exudates, they are secreted by seeds, roots, leaves and stems and fulfil a variety of functions including adhesion, protection, nutrient acquisition and infection.
Andrew F. Galloway +2 more
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