Sentences with phrase «of dodder»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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).