(b) What type of plant is Cuscuta?
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Cuscuta plant is called a parasite because it does not have chlorophyll and absorbs food material from the host. In this process, it deprives the host of its valuable nutrients.
Cuscuta, in the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae) or Cuscutaceae, depending on the classification system used.
One of the most studied groups of heterotrophic plants is Cuscuta (dodders), the sole parasitic genus of Convolvulaceae (reviewed in Stefanović and Olmstead, 2004, 2005). Species of Cuscuta are characterized by long slender stems, with scale-like leaves and no roots.
The Cuscuta weed covers up an orange tree in the Maracha district.
Cuscuta is one example of a parasitic plant. Saprophytes are the plants that depend on dead and decaying organic matter for their nourishment. This is extracellular digestion. Fungi is an example of this.
Definition of Cuscuta. : a large and widely distributed genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs (family Convolvulaceae) comprising the dodders and having whitish or yellow filamentous stems.
Cuscuta is a total parasitic plant as it cannot synthesize its own food and is fully dependent on its host. Other parasitic plants like mistletoe can synthesize its own food but depend on its host for nutrients are called partial parasitic plants.
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Cuscuta, in the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae) or Cuscutaceae, depending on the classification system used.
One of the most studied groups of heterotrophic plants is Cuscuta (dodders), the sole parasitic genus of Convolvulaceae (reviewed in Stefanović and Olmstead, 2004, 2005). Species of Cuscuta are characterized by long slender stems, with scale-like leaves and no roots.
The Cuscuta weed covers up an orange tree in the Maracha district.
Cuscuta is one example of a parasitic plant. Saprophytes are the plants that depend on dead and decaying organic matter for their nourishment. This is extracellular digestion. Fungi is an example of this.
Definition of Cuscuta. : a large and widely distributed genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs (family Convolvulaceae) comprising the dodders and having whitish or yellow filamentous stems.
Cuscuta is a total parasitic plant as it cannot synthesize its own food and is fully dependent on its host. Other parasitic plants like mistletoe can synthesize its own food but depend on its host for nutrients are called partial parasitic plants.
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