T he parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris grows by latching onto the stems and leaves of plants and inserting organs called haustorium into the host plant tissues to draw nutrients. The haustorium is ...

Plants of the genus Cuscuta have colorful folk names ... all active genes in the leaves of dodder-connected plants, using RNA sequencing (or "whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing") ...

What is unique about Cuscuta [commonly known as dodder] is that it has no leaves. And it isn’t green, because it lacks chlorophyll, the pigment that absorbs solar energy, allowing plants to turn ...

toward attractive plant odors. “The Cuscuta can smell its victims,” says Markus Albert of the University of Tübingen in Germany. Depending on the dodder species, victims include asparagus ...

Parasites that cannot survive without a host are known as obligate, while facultative parasites can live and reproduce without a host plant. Cuscuta, also commonly known as dodder, has no roots or ...

Cuscuta, or dodder vine, is a native parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll ... like true roots or leaves. It more closely resembles spaghetti al dente haphazardly draped over a plant, slowly ...

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.

Researchers have discovered the mechanism that drives the parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris to insert organs into plants after making contact with the hosts. The parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris ...

Plants of the genus Cuscuta have colorful folk names ... By analyzing the transcriptome ̶ all active genes in the leaves of dodder-connected plants, using RNA sequencing (or “whole transcriptome ...