Parasitic plants tap into the main stream

Parasitic Plants of the World

Role Modeling Enters the Main Stream

The old conventional wisdom is easily explained. Being implementation oriented, OMT is very helpful for programmers struggling with their source code. The new, emerging conventional wisdom stems from the fundamental weaknesses of OMT. Since it is based on object-oriented programming languages and entity-relationship modeling, it misses that the essence of object orientation is object identity a...

Modelling the growth of parasitic plants

Transcriptomics exposes the uniqueness of parasitic plants.

Parasitic plants have the ability to obtain nutrients directly from other plants, and several species are serious biological threats to agriculture by parasitizing crops of high economic importance. The uniqueness of parasitic plants is characterized by the presence of a multicellular organ called a haustorium, which facilitates plant-plant interactions, and shutting down or reducing their own ...

Cross-species translocation of mRNA from host plants into the parasitic plant dodder.

An intriguing new paradigm in plant biology is that systemically mobile mRNAs play a role in coordinating development. In this process, specific mRNAs are loaded into the phloem transport stream for translocation to distant tissues, where they may impact on developmental processes. However, despite its potential significance for plant growth regulation, mRNA trafficking remains poorly understoo...