Have you seen that orange thread-like stuff draped over the top of plants in a salt marsh? It’s a parasitic annual plant ...

该研究成果以 MicroRNA399s and strigolactones mediate systemic phosphate signaling between dodder-connected host plants and control association of host plants with rhizosphere microbes 为题在线发表在植物学国际杂志 New ...

For dodder, it is the best strategy to synchronize flowering with that of its host. If it flowers much later than its host does, it may not be able to produce seeds at all, ...

For dodder, it is the best strategy to synchronize flowering with that of its host. If it flowers much later than its host does, it may not be able to produce seeds at all, as the nutrients in the ...

By June, dodder patches are conspicuous in salt marshes along the coast. Though they are hard to see, thousands of tiny bell-shaped flowers that produce two to three seeds cover each plant.

Some flowers release a pleasing fragrance. Other plants smell. And then there's the vampire-like dodder vine, a parasitic plant which sniffs out its victims, sinks its fangs in and starts drinking.

A: Dodder is a parasitic plant.Its yellow or orange threads attach themselves to a green plant and live on food the green plant makes through photosynthesis. As a parasite, it doesn't need ...

For dodder, it is the best strategy to synchronize flowering with that of its host. If it flowers much later than its host does, it may not be able to produce seeds at all, ...

Q. A strange threadlike plant has wrapped itself around the stems of some of the plants in my flower bed. Any clue what this might be? A. It sounds as if dodder, a vining parasite, is the problem ...

Dodder also has the ability to decrease a host’s resistance to diseases. Dodder also hollows out the host tree. 300 trees have fallen prey to dodder in the past two years, ...

THE paragraph on Dr. Thomson's interesting work (1925) in NATURE of February 6, p. 210, contains a reference to the results of “earlier observers” which I cannot pass without comment.