Structural and immunochemical studies were used to determine the photosynthetic potential of the dodder (Cuscuta pentagona) chloroplast. Ultrastructural studies revealed that thylakoid membranes of pre-parasitic phase Cuscuta pentagona are almost all organized into long, overlapping grana stacks of mainly two to five thylakoids with little space between adjacent stacks. Immunoblots reveal chlor...

It was generally accepted that Cuscuta europaea is mostly adapted to a parasitic lifestyle with no detectable levels of chlorophylls. We found out relatively high level of chlorophylls (Chls a+b) in young developmental stages of dodder. Significant lowering of Chls (a+b) content and increase of carotenoid concentration was typical only for ontogenetically more developed stages. Lower content of...

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...

green vine of the parasitic dodder plant (Cuscuta) latching onto a host plant. Christian Hettenhausen et al. found that Cuscuta bridges between host plants facilitate the transfer of herbivoryinduced signals from attacked to unattacked host plants. The authors report that the jasmonic acid biosynthesis pathway is required to generate such interplant signaling, which elevates defensive metabolit...

Cuscuta reflexa is a parasitic plant that has place with the family Convolvulaceae. It regularly known as dodder plant, amarbel, akashabela. Generally, it called marvel plant. rootless, lasting, leafless climbing twining spice takes food from have planted help of an extraordinary organ haustorium. This survey article will gather definitive portrayal compound constituent’s pharmacological employ...