It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many natural plant products are ancestry-specific and occur only in ...

Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients.

Are you tired of garden pests and want to reduce pesticide use? Certain plants can help manage insects in your garden.

This huge loss has been attributed to both direct and indirect damage that plant parasitic nematodes cause. For example, damage to yam by root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) and the yam nematode ...

If you want to protect your pest and disease-prone cucumbers for a bountiful harvest, consider planting one of these 15 ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

Aotearoa's only parasitic plant has been rediscovered in Wainuiomata, after wild populations of the species were thought to be extinct from the region for more than a century. Te pua o te Rēinga, also ...

For example, a conservation stewardship organization ... citizen science contributions arranged into groups, like the “Parasitic plants of the World.” Like PlantNet, iNaturalist is free.

Os resultados encorajam maiores estudos envolvendo COVs no manejo de nematóides. The javanese root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica is a major plant pathogen widespread in the tropics. As the ...

The same compounds have been known for decades to trigger seed germination of parasitic plants, such as Striga. AM fungi induce a signal transduction process in root cells that overlaps with the ...