Stealing information from host plants: How the parasitic dodder plant flowers
Monday, August 31, 2020 - 14:01
in Biology & Nature
About 4,000 to 5,000 parasitic plant species exist. Among these, dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) are distributed worldwide. Compared with normal autotrophic plants, they have a unique morphology—they are rootless and leafless and carry out no or very little photosynthesis.