Parasitic plants are notorious agricultural pests that drain nutrients from crops and cause economic losses of more than USD ...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some ...

Figure 1: Mean (± s.e.m.) values for plant community parameters as affected by the presence of R. minor after three years. Main treatment effects on biomass of the most frequent plant species, and on ...

Some parasitic plants can ‘steal’ genetic information from their hosts through horizontal gene transfer, which they then use to make themselves a better parasite. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a ...

New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. New research ...

Parasitic plants cause losses of over a billion dollars in crop losses each year, yet they rarely attack their own roots.

With the emerald ash borer beetle devastating ash tree populations throughout the United States — from locations as far north as Massachusetts and as far south as Louisiana — solutions to help fight ...

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A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

Integrated circuit (IC) designers move to advanced process technology nodes to leverage higher performance, density, and functionality, as well as reduced delay and power consumption, enabled by ...