Crip21-alert from dodder to crops

Yuli Ding, Hsuan Pai

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Abstract

Together with pathogenic microbes and herbivorous insects, parasitic plants are emerging as aggressive threats on agriculture worldwide. Among them, Cuscuta (dodder), a stem holoparasite, extracts nutrients and water from host plants through phloem feeding. Dodder is parasitic on a very wide variety of plants, including a number of important agricultural and horticultural crops such as alfalfa, clover, tomatoes, and potatoes. Dodder infestations cause major economic concerns, including crop yield reduction and cost increase of crop harvesting. Understanding resistance mechanisms against dodder can provide potential solutions to effectively control dodder infestations.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1674
JournalMolecular Plant
Volume13
Issue number12
Early online date19 Nov 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Dec 2020

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