Soil microbes mediate the effects of parasitic litter input on plant invasion Plant invasion poses threats to local plant biodiversity and causes substantial economic losses. It is urgent to develop effective methods for the control

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#SoilMicrobes mediate the effects of #ParasiticLitter input on #PlantInvasion

#BiologicalControl | #Competition | #Cuscuta

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#Dodders. Very odd things they are. Parasitic leafless plants like a very thin strand plant octopus that wraps up its host, sometimes killing it. Today I noticed a species of it was flowering. Which is the most plant thing I have seen #cuscuta do yet lol

A Parasitic Plant Is Looking for a New Host…

A parasitic plant (Cuscuta) loses its original host and probes a nearby plant using chemical cues.
It never attaches — even after deploying massive new growth.

#platbehaviour #parasiticplant #timelapseplants
#plantscience
#cuscuta
#plantintelligence

Plenty of dodder (Cuscuta, aka devil’s hair) on the mountain. A parasitic plant that wraps itself around its host, stealing nutrients. Striking, but often a threat to native vegetation.
#rewilding #ecology #parasiticplants #biodiversity #Spain #drylands #Cuscuta

We’re kicking off our May series with Rohan Bhat, who will present: “Taxonomic revision of the genus Cuscuta in India”.

🗓️ Date: Friday, May 2
🕑 Time: 14:00 GMT

#Convolvulaceae #Cuscuta #Taxonomy

Nature's viny vampire: Discovering what drives parasitic Cuscuta campestris The parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris grows by latching onto the stems and leaves of plants and inserting organs called haustorium into the host plant tissues to draw nutrients. The haustorium is form...

Nature's viny vampire: Discovering what drives #parasitic #Cuscuta campestris

#dodder #CcMCA1 #sensing #ion_channels

phys.org/news/2025-03...

On the cover: Transgenic #Cuscuta (35S:RUBY) growing on a host #tomato stem, with RUBY reporter observed inside the host stem. Image courtesy of So-Yon Park.

📖 See Adhikari et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20140

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One organ to infect them all: the Cuscuta haustorium AbstractBackground. Research on the parasitic plant genus Cuscuta has flourished since the genomes of several of its species were published. Most of the re

📜 One organ to infect them all: the Cuscuta haustorium

🧑‍🔬 Vasili A. Balios, Kirsten Krause, et al.

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#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantParasitism #ParasiticPlants #Cuscuta #Haustoria

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Rapid plant-to-plant systemic signaling via a Cuscuta bridge Two plants connected via a Cuscuta bridge exchange rapid systemic calcium, electric, and reactive oxygen species signals, suggesting that Cuscuta may have

📜 Rapid plant-to-plant systemic signaling via a Cuscuta bridge

🧑‍🔬 Yosef Fichman, So-Yon Park, et al.

📔 Plant Physiology

🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantParasitism #Cuscuta #PlantImmunity #PlantPhysiology

Parasitic dodders #cuscuta provide evidence that closed dry fruit capsules promote long-distance #dispersal by #endozoochory or other means @CoDisperse @chavanleeuwen @AdamLovasKiss