Sentences with word «dodder»

Be prepared for the worst scenes of crusty old - age make - up since Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer doddered around in J Edgar.

The gene that codes for this clotting protein has a very similar sequence across many plant species, and the researchers showed that the microRNA from dodder targets regions of the gene sequence that are the most highly conserved across plants.

all active genes in the leaves of dodder - connected plants, using RNA sequencing (or «whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing»)?

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.

MicroRNA from dodder targets the messenger RNA that codes for this protein, which then helps to maintain a free flow of nutrients to the parasite.

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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.

«The plant hormone jasmonic acid plays an especially important role in dodder - mediated systemic signaling.

Japanese dodder can cover and kill most large shrubs and small trees.

Green demonstrates no control over his star, who dodders through the movie in a sleepy daze.

An orphan, of course, she has for family but a dim - bulb brother (who devotes his limited intellect to chasing tail) and a spunky grandma (who dodders sweetly in the Hee - Haw manner).

In this auto - running platformer, titular hero Yobot dodders about cavernous rooms within a robot manufacturing plant.

«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.

But when we looked at microRNA, we found that dodder also passes this chopped - up form of RNA into its prey, which then exerts control over the host's genetic expression.

Understanding dodder's covert communications weaponry system, which operates much like a computer virus, could provide researchers with a method to engineer parasite - resistant plants.

«The big news is that we now have evidence of a function for RNA that is being exchanged between dodder and its quarry,» said Jim Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, an author of the paper.

Jim Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science, examines dodder, a parasitic plant with a covert weaponry system.

«Dodder seems to turn on the expression of these microRNAs when it comes into contact with the host plant,» said James H. Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science at Virginia Tech and another author of the paper.

Dodder uses olfaction to hunt down its quarry.

In China, dodder parasitization leads to large losses in soybean yield.

In agriculture, dodder causes considerable economic damages in pasture farming with alfalfa and clover.

We therefore wanted to know whether dodder can transmit insect feeding - induced signals among different hosts and whether these signals can even activate defenses against insects,» explains Jianqiang Wu, who worked at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology as a PhD student and later a project leader, and who is now heading a Max Planck Partner Group in China.

The plant parasite dodder grafts itself to multiple hosts, fusing the plants into a superorganism that can produce surprising effects

With native dodder, the greatest growth reduction occurs when the parasite attaches to seedlings; the infestation usually doesn't kill established host plants, but when multiple attachments are made to the same host plant, death can occur.

Michael Caine dodders about.

She suffocated after the air ran out, while the Senator doddered around town, avoiding the consequences for as long as it took to come up with a convincing - enough story.

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.

Dodder vines fuse their vascular systems with those of its host plants, connecting them with its network.

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

The parasitic vine called dodder is the sniffer dog of the vegetable world.

Starting with its swift, merciless satire of contemporary college life, the film is acutely funny about the roles people play as they forge their adulthood or dodder through it.

VICIOUS VINE One of the dodder vines, Cuscuta reflexa, twines over neighboring plants and sucks the life out of them — unless they have a wooden - stake gene.

A dodder seedling, basically a bare stem, finds that first neighbor by writhing and groping (in slow plant time) toward attractive plant odors.

In the same family as the heavenly blue garden trumpets, the dodders, as they're sometimes called, lose their roots about a week after sprouting and never grow real leaves.

Dodder, a parasitic plant that causes major damage to crops in the U.S. and worldwide every year, can silence the expression of genes in the host plants from which it obtains water and nutrients.

«Dodder is an obligate parasite, meaning that it can't live on its own,» said Michael J. Axtell, professor of biology at Penn State and an author of the paper.

Dodder, a parasitic plant, attached to a host plant from which it obtains water and nutrients.

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.

In this case, dodder is trying to hack into the host's information system and the host is trying to shut it off.

We were able to show that, in addition to the nutrients that flow into dodder from the host plant across the haustoria, dodder passes microRNAs into its host plant that regulate the expression of host genes in a very direct way.»

Because of this, dodder can probably silence this clotting protein in, and therefore parasitize, a wide variety of plant species.

Dodder, a parasitic plant that levies millions of dollars» worth of damage on crops each year is a stealthy invader with the ability to wage war on the genes of its host plants.

Dodder is exceptionally sensitive to odours, but all plants have a sense of smell.

«Dodder: A parasite involved in the plant alarm system: Host plants communicate warning signals through a parasite network, when insects attack.»

After insect herbivory, defense signals traveled rapidly from plant to plant via the dodder network, even over large distances,» Jianqiang Wu explained.

In the current study, they used Spodoptera litura, a chewing caterpillar, to induce host plants connected by a dodder network.