introduction dodder (cascuta campestris yuncker) is an annual parasitic plant from the convolvulaceae family (mishra et al., 2007). it wraps around many adjacent dicot and a few monocot plants, penetrates in their vascular tissue and exploits photosynthates, nutrients and water (lanini & kogan, 2005). consequently, the growth, vigor and production of the host plant will be severely reduced (nad...

It is generally correct to think of plants as the hearty autotrophs, gamely harnessing photons to make food and existing perennially (or annually) at the bottom of the food chain. However, thousands of plant species have lost the ability to feed themselves and have become adapted, instead, to live as parasites of other plants. Not surprisingly, these parasitic plants, especially witchweed root ...

The experiment was conducted to find out the efficacy of dodder vine extract as seed protectant against pulse beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis on gram seed in the laboratory of the Department of Entomology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh during the period of February to May, 2009. The concentrations of dodder vine extract were 5, 2 and 1% respectively. Efficacies of these treatm...

Phytoplasma PoiBI is responsible for free branching in poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima Wild. ex. Klotzsch). In this study, PoiBI was transmitted by dodder from poinsettia to crown-of-thorns (E. milii Des Moulins) in one out of ≈100 attempts, whereas grafting transmission was unsuccessful. PoiBI was shown to be viable in E. milii, as it was detected in the recipient plant and in its cuttings o...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...