Have you seen that orange thread-like stuff draped over the top of plants in a salt marsh? It’s a parasitic annual plant called dodder, Cuscuta species. Dodder is capable of photosynthesis, but ...

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🎵 The Marsh Warbler is nature’s best mimic. This tiny bird sings using the voices of over 100 other species! Recorded in its natural wetland habitat, this rare performance shows why it’s ...

Finally, B. palustris oil was an inactive DPPH radical scavenger. All the information obtained, suggests that we are only just at the beginning of understanding the polyacetylene specialized chemistry ...

Researchers have discovered the mechanism that drives the parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris to insert organs into plants after making contact with the hosts.

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Cuscuta dodder, a parasitic vine without roots, has already infested acres of trees in the reserve forests and has begun to spread inside India’s oldest bird sanctuary.