About 1% of flowering plants (around 4,000 species) are parasitic. Read on to discover 10 interesting examples of parasitic plants, where they can be found and how they steal nutrients from other ...

Chinese scientists have identified two key genes responsible for sorghum's resistance to Striga, a parasitic plant that ...

Predation, herbivory, and parasitism are specific types ... drives adaptations in both the herbivore and the plant species it eats. For example, to reduce the damage done by herbivores, plants ...

2008). Yearly productivity of trematode parasites, for example, was higher than the biomass of birds. Similarly, the estimated biomass of plant fungal pathogens was comparable to that of ...

Its kiss-inducing qualities are common knowledge, but the fact that it's a parasitic plant is not. Mistletoe, whether American, European, or another type, lives off of host trees and weakens their ...

These extraordinary examples show that plants are far from passive. Despite their immobility, they have evolved strategies to mimic movement, predation, parasitism, and reproduction seen in animals.