What is that queer plant drapes itself chaotically over the top of trees and bushes? You know one along road on way into town? 
 Ah yes! mean with no leaves, looks like tangled yarn caught up in branches? Yes, it its floating airborne canopy, smothering embracing at same time. Well, that's common name snotty gobble or Dodder-Laurel!!! Dodder may look chaotic but only demands how you view i...

in order to evaluate the allelopathic potential of sunflower (helianthus annus l.) organs on germination and growth of dodder (cuscuta compestris l.), series studies were conducted in three separate experiments; as factorial based on completely randomized design (crd) with three replications for each experiments. first experiment was conducted in petri dishes and consisted of sunflower organs a...

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...