Dodders are among the most important parasitic plants that cause serious yield losses in crop plants. In this report, we sought to unveil the genetic basis of dodder parasitism by profiling the trancriptomes of Cuscuta pentagona and C. suaveolens, two of the most common dodder species using a next-generation RNA sequencing platform. De novo assembly of the sequence reads resulted in more than 4...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of immune enhancement, anti-fatigue and anoxia tolerance on mice of four kinds of dodder seeds in Shandong Province. METHODS Water extracts and alcohol extracts of the four kinds of dodder seeds were administered to mice. The phagocytosis of coelio-macrophage, the weight changes of the immune organs, the survival time to swimming and lacking of oxygen were obs...

Field observations showed that in its native Texas grasslands, dodder (Cuscuta attenuata) grows more vigorously in patches of mixed host species than in monospecific host patches. Field experiments with naturally occurring host individuals demonstrated that the parasite achieved greater volume when simultaneously infesting two hosts of differing species rather than two hosts of the same species...

Huanglongbing, or citrus greening, threatens the global citrus industry. The presumptive pathogens, 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' and 'Ca. L. americanus' can be transferred from citrus to more easily studied experimental hosts by using holoparasitic dodder plants. However, the interaction between 'Candidatus Liberibacter' spp. and the dodder has not been studied. We combined quantitative ...

background and objectivescommon privet (ligustrum vulgare) is one of the most important plants in landscapes of iran. this plant is adaptable to unfavorable environmental conditions, so that is cultivated widespread in urban landscape. invasion of dodder to common privet caused problems for landscape management in mashhad city in recent years. dodder is an obligate parasite of many plant famili...

weed chemical control has negative results on agroecosystems. therefore, identification of cultivars tolerant to weeds has importance in nonchemical management. so, in this study, the tolerance of some alfalfa cultivars was studied to dodder. anexperiment was conducted at research farm and laboratory of shahed university in 2011. the farm experiment was done as split plot in time in randomized ...

The dodder plant Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. is an angiospermic leafless parasitic plant belonging to the family Cuscutaceae is abundantly found colonizing certain plant species in the premises of Manas Biosphere Reserve (MBR) and nearby area. Ten (10) angiospermic host plants in total of the above parasite were recognized. Based on the field inspection most of the numbers of patches were recorded in...

Dur ing an investigation of the relat ionship between the parasit ic flowering p lan t dodder (Cuscuta campestris Yuncker) and its hosts, an unusual cytoplasmic componen t was observed in cer tain of the dodder cells. Both in electron and in l ight micrographs our a t ten t ion was d rawn to the cytoplasmically rich cells at the tip of the newly initiated haustor ium, or sucker. These long cell...