Sentences with phrase «by dodder»

They are now interested in investigating whether piercing - sucking insects, such as aphids, can induce a different repertoire of defensive signals, and in learning how these are transferred by dodder.

They then measured the amount of messenger RNA of genes that were targeted by the dodder microRNAs and saw that the level of messenger RNA from the host was reduced when the dodder microRNAs were present.

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«Unlike most plants that get energy through photosynthesis, dodder siphons off water and nutrients from other plants by connecting itself to the host vascular system using structures called haustoria.

By comparing the sequencing data from these three sources, they were able to identify microRNAs from dodder that had entered the plant tissue.

the scientists could show that plant which are wounded by insects can transfer defense signals via the so - called dodder bridges to the neighboring plants.

A team of scientists led by Jianqiang Wu from the Kunming Institute of Botany in China and Ian Baldwin from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now taken a closer look at the ecological significance of dodder.