A wrapped up piece of my lovely Aimatia being overly nice (for her) in the hopes you'll take one of her cuttings with you on your quest~ More info on her in my FA post!!! :3
www.furaffinity.net/view/64432202/
#dnd #D&D #characterart #fantasyart #furryart #goat #faun #plants #parasiticplants
Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria)
🦷 Corpse Flower 🌼 - The Secret Life of Toothwort
#Plants #HiddenWonders #Spring #ParasiticPlants #ToothWort #Science #Nature
More information to be found 👇
hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/03/hove...
The flowers are arranged such that they resemble rows of discoloured teeth hence its common name.
Latest #Parasiticplants research from my lab, incl. newly designed metabolic indices that may be useful in other plant studies:
Compartmentalisation along the stem axis of Striga and Alectra reflects distinct zones of carbohydrate acquisition and utilisation url: academic.oup.com/pcp/article/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137...
#ParasiticPlants on the cover of the current issue of #newphyt.bsky.social. Work by Petra Svetlikova and colleagues on the evolution of the holoparasite Balanophora fungosa
Big news from our lab: we can now stably edit the genome of a parasitic plant! Transgene-free, genome-edited P. japonicum in one generation! This will transform how we study #parasiticplants and other hard-to-transform plants.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New #preprint from the lab: When one plant parasitizes another, the impact goes beyond nutrient loss. We show that parasitism weakens the host plant’s immunity, leaving it highly susceptible to microbial infections. Find out why: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #PlantImmunity #ParasiticPlants
Nice to see our paper on Pilostyles, a fascinating endoparasite, making the rounds again!
#ParasiticPlants
A close-up photo of beechdrops in its seeding stage.
Beechdrops. If you look closely, you'll see its seeds. They look like tiny white grains of rice. Some have been splashed up by the rain, one of its primary means of seed dispersal. #botany #plantsky #naturesky #parasiticplants
This Bizarre Parasitic 'Mushroom' Plant Quit Photosynthesis – And It's Thriving #Science #Biology #Botany #ParasiticPlants #Photosynthesis #PlantScience
Lathraea squamaria L. Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021. #Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology
Lathraea squamaria L. Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021. #Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology
Lathraea squamaria L. Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021. #Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology
Lathraea squamaria L. Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021. #Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology
Lathraea squamaria L.
Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021.
An Eurasian holoparasitic species belonging to Orobanchaceae. The genus Lathraea is sister to Rhinanthus. In Liguria it is widespread but few common.
#Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology
Asexual parasitic plants break biology’s rules #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #AsexualReproduction #ParasiticPlants #BiologyNews
🚨 I'm excited to share that my new publication is now available at @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social 📃 Building on numerous publications and on my own recent research, I discuss several ways in which #GlobalChange 🌎🌍🌏 affects the physiology of #ParasiticPlants 🌱
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
Highly recommended! Did you know that the term “haustorium” originated in the study of #parasiticplants and was only later adopted by microbiologists?
This was completely unexpected! Did not know these grew this far north. These are yet another parasitic plant, Hairy pinesap, Hypopitys lanuginosa, not to be confused with its summertime sibling, yellow pinesap, Hypopitys monotropa. #parasiticplants #pinesap #plantsky
Bluesky, apologies for the clipshow version at bot o'clock. You're getting the whole thing. #plantsky #monotropa #parasiticplants #nature ⬇️
Read PCP Editors Satoko Yoshida and Takayuki Tohge's exciting collaborative work on parasitic plants (below).
And watch out for PCP's upcoming special issue on #ParasiticPlants (organised by Satoko Yoshida, Atsushi Okazawa, Thomas Spallek and Kaori Yoneyama) - out next year...!
elephantella :) #parasiticplants
A photo with two non-photosynthetic parasitic unrelated plants in the same shot. Ghost pipe on the left, beechdrops on the right.
Two plant parasites in one! #plantsky #parasiticplants #ghostpipe #beechdrops
A cartoon illustrating the trade-off between photosynthesis and respiration, together with a short text summary of the paper by Hida et al, and below are headshots of the three first co-authors (S. Hida, M. Nishio and K. Uesaka) together with their brief text biographies.
Coping in the dark...
Hida et al. isolated phosphatase mutations that caused #phototrophic– #heterotrophic switching in dark-grown #cyanobacteria; a useful approach for dissecting evolutionary steps towards loss of photosynthetic capacity in #ParasiticPlants
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
Curious about these plants? Follow the International Parasitic Plant Society on BlueSky for all the latest news on #parasiticplants!
A close-up of the development of a parasitic endophyte by @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social and colleagues. #parasiticplants
Two parasitic species form two different kingdoms in one post :) #parasiticplants
...when parasites become hosts #parasiticplants
Calling all #ParasiticPlants enthusiasts, especially the fans of #endoparasites: our recent paper on #Pilostyles will be under free open access for 2 weeks!
We combine #PlantAnatomy, development, and #microCT to provide insights into the physiology, sexual system, and ecology of these strange plants
