About 1% of flowering plants (around 4,000 species) are parasitic. Read on to discover 10 interesting examples of parasitic plants, where they can be found and how they steal nutrients from other ...

And plant evolution expert Daniel Nickrent does, too: He has spent much of his life studying parasitic plants and, at his Illinois residence, has inoculated several maples in his yard — and his ...

But for every rule there is an exception. Some plants are non-photosynthetic and parasitic, obtaining their food through a host. All parasitic plants have special organs called haustoria that ...

This time-lapse video shows how the parasitic plant dodder attacks tomatoes. But beyond stealing nutrients from the host plants, a Virginia Tech researcher has discovered that the two plants also ...

Dodder, a parasitic plant, attached to a host plant from which it obtains water and nutrients. The parasite inserts microRNAs into the host that can silence the expression of host genes.

Revealing a sensitive germination receptor in parasitic plants brings researchers closer to eradicating a major source of African crop damage and food insecurity. From summer to autumn in sub ...

The reductive revolution of parasitic plants' plastid genomes now is clearly understood, while still little is known about mitochondrial genomes. Based on comparative genome analysis of autotrophic, ...