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 ...

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 ...

The problem of 'parasitic plants' that parasitize other plants and steal their moisture and nutrients is an unavoidable problem for farmers, and in countries suffering from food shortages ...

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 ...

Parasitic weeds are plants that obtain some or all of their nutrients and water from a host plant, to which they attach at either stem or root level. A major problem in other parts of the world ...

Parasitic plants cause enormous damage to crops in arid regions Sudan has vast areas of potential cropland, but has been suffering from the devastating effects of the root parasitic weeds of the genus ...