Root radar: How parasitic plants know when to attack Date: July 30, 2015 Source: University of Georgia ... As plant roots grow, they release hormones called strigolactones into the soil.

Researchers at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan report in a new study in Science Advances that parasitic plants use the plant hormone ethylene as a signal to invade the roots of ...

Plant parasitic nematodes are microscopic worm-like organisms that require water to survive and are sensitive to high temperature. Only living nematodes can be extracted from roots. Through the ...

A dodder plant begins its life looking like a tapeworm. The tiny plant, which will never grow leaves or roots, elongates in a spindly spiral. Round and round it swirls, searching for a host plant.

Root-knot nematodes (RKN; Meloidogyne spp.) cause significant annual yield reductions in cucumber crops. These obligatory endoparasites inhabit plant roots, where they cause structural ...

Dodders have modified root systems called haustoria which extend into the vascular system of host plants, allowing the parasite plant to extract water, carbohydrates and nutrients.

Love Vine is a higher plant that produces flowers and seeds. The flowers are white. The fruit are black when dry, a one-seeded drupe (stone fruit) with a very hard seed coat.

In the dark and moist understories of the subtropical forests of Shimoshima Island in Japan grow parasitic plants that feed on the roots of other plants. They are called Balanophora, and for over ...

Scraping soil away from a Langsdorffia hypogaea reveals the plant’s scam: It’s just a bouquet of flowers growing from ropy vampiric tissue that sucks on other species’ roots. Jean Carlos Santos ...