Tag Archive for 'Dodder'

When dodder (Cuscuta pentagona) attacks other plants, there is a vast exchange of genetic information between the parasite and its host. Image credit: Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Biologists Discover New Form of Plant Communication

Aug 15, 2014 by News Staff

U.S. biologists led by Prof James Westwood of the Virginia Tech’s Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science have found that parasitic...