Literature DB >> 11153118

Plant eats plant: sap-feeding witchweeds and other parasitic angiosperms.

M C Press1, A L Gurney.   

Abstract

About one in every hundred species of flowering plant is parasitic and obtain some or all of their carbon, nutrients and water from the sap of their hosts. They possess unique morphological and metabolic adaptations but are more than just botanical curiosities.

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Year:  2000        PMID： 11153118

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Biologist (London)        ISSN： 0006-3347


  2 in total

1.  Occurrence of the lutein-epoxide cycle in mistletoes of the Loranthaceae and Viscaceae.

Authors:  Shizue Matsubara; Tomas Morosinotto; Roberto Bassi; Anna-Luise Christian; Elke Fischer-Schliebs; Ulrich Lüttge; Birgit Orthen; Augusto C Franco; Fabio R Scarano; Britta Förster; Barry J Pogson; C Barry Osmond
Journal:  Planta       Date:  2003-07-03       Impact factor: 4.116

2.  Control of witchweed Striga hermonthica by intercropping with Desmodium spp., and the mechanism defined as allelopathic.

Authors:  Zeyaur R Khan; Ahmed Hassanali; William Overholt; Tsanuo M Khamis; Antony M Hooper; John A Pickett; Lester J Wadhams; Christine M Woodcock
Journal:  J Chem Ecol       Date:  2002-09       Impact factor: 2.626
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