Parasitic weeds extract water and nutrients from their host plants. But what makes these parasites so successful? A study led ...

A dodder plant begins its life looking like a tapeworm. The tiny plant, which will never grow leaves or roots, elongates in a spindly spiral. Round and round it swirls, searching for a host plant.

The New Phytologist, Vol. 218, No. 2 (April 2018), pp. 404-406 (3 pages) Cui S, Wada S, Tobimatsu Y, Takeda Y, Saucet SB, Takano T, Umezawa T, Shirasu K, Yoshida S. 2018. Host lignin composition ...

A team led by Prof Susann Wicke from the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity at the University of Münster has shown that ...