Sentences with phrase «dodder parasitization»

Japanese dodder typically grows much larger and faster than other dodders that attack herbaceous plants — up to 6 inches a day.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

«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.

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.

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.

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

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

«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.

«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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

Sara Dodder Furr, a long time MilkWoman, passed away in late December.

In memory of Sara, a long time MilkWoman and La Leche League Leader, who loved and supported mothers unconditionally, and believed in the wisdom of carrying your baby, MilkWorks has established the Sara Dodder Furr Baby Carrier Fund.

What Plants Talk About ~ Full Episode Plants Talk AboutA world where plants communicate, co-operate and, sometimes, wage all - out war.2013 -04-03 20:00:00 publishdisabledshowfalse8234Dodder Vine Sniffs Out Its PreyThe parasitic dodder vine «sniffs» out plants from which it can draw nutrients.

Plants Talk AboutA world where plants communicate, co-operate and, sometimes, wage all - out war.2013 -04-03 20:00:00 publishdisabledshowfalse8234Dodder Vine Sniffs Out Its PreyThe parasitic dodder vine «sniffs» out plants from which it can draw nutrients.

He'll dodder around vatican city, show up at ransom meetings and shout, «No, no, you're doing it all wrong!»

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).

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.