Dodder is an obligate parasite of certain plants. This unusual member of the morning glory family is also known as “Angel’s Hair” and “Strangle Weed.” Like Indian pipe, another parasitic plant, Dodder ...

Around 4,000 to 5,000 plants are parasites. Most parasitic plants use an organ, named haustorium, to attach to and penetrate host plants to obtain water and nutrients. Some parasitic plants, such as ...

Jim Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science, examines dodder, a parasitic plant with a covert weaponry system. Research at Virginia Tech and Penn State that has revealed ...

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. This is the ...

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 it ...

WASHINGTON — The parasitic dodder plant, or strangleweed, doesn't have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey. The dodder attacks such plants as tomatoes, carrots, onions, citrus trees, ...

That strange mass of stringy yellow stuff growing across the ground and up onto your trees? It's not something from a 1950s horror movie, but it is a parasite that can damage your landscaping. It is ...

The parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris grows by latching onto the stems and leaves of plants and inserting organs called haustorium into the host plant tissues to draw nutrients. The haustorium is ...

The strategies devised by plants are astonishing. What, for instance, do the following plants have in common: dodder (love vine), mistletoe, squawroot, beechdrops, pinesaps, gerardia, one-flowered ...

Fred from Boardman submitted this photo to the OSU Extension Plant and Pest Clinic of a vine growing around his petunias. Master Gardeners identified it as a dodder vine, a parasitic plant also known ...