MSV is transmitted amongst maize and other
weed host plants by small insects called leafhoppers.
Not exact matches
The second, published in November 2016 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presented the discovery that parasitic
weeds may be able to steal genes from their prey and then use those genes against the
host plant.
«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.
I grow a lot of our own food and on any given day need to move from
weeding and
planting (so getting my knees very muddy),
hosting drop by visitors, chasing hawks away from my chickens, nursing a demanding baby, harvesting from the garden to make dinner, etc, etc..
Habitat Restoration at Creekside Marsh -
Hosted by Marin County Parks and One Tam May 19, 2018 9 am - Noon Location: Mount Tamalpais Come join this community - based effort to install a diversity of native
plants and improve animal habitat at a site once dominated by
weeds!
True, the
plantings won't look much like a garden to your traditional horticulturalist (one YouTube commenter said it looked like they were mostly growing
weeds), but a closer look suggests this is a
planting of edible polycultures that includes squashes and zucchini, radishes, lettuce and a whole
host of other crops.
As I've stated before, think of the most pesky
plant you've ever had to deal with — a
weed that never seemed to go away, that caused a
host of problems in your garden, and if you could blow it up off the face of the planet, you would.