which is the mode of nutrition in cuscuta explain
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Cascuta plant feed on the another living host plant for food,nutrients and other needs
.Thus it under goes Parasite nutrition.
Answer:
(i) Dodder (Cuscuta) is a leaf less, twining parasitic plant belonging to family convolvulaceae.
(ii) The cuscuta contains no Chlorophyll and instead absorbs food through Haustoria.
(iii) The dodder's seed germinates forming an anchoring root and then semds up a slender stem that grows in a spiral fashion unit it reaches a host plant.
(iv) It then twines around the stem of the host plant and throws out Haustoria, which penetrate into the Host.
(v) Water is drawn through the Haustoria from the Host plant's Stem, Xylem and Nutrients are drawn from its Phloem.
(vi) As the dodder grows, it sends out new Haustoria and establishes itself very firmly on the host plant.
(vii) After growing in a few spirals around one Host shoot, the dodder finds its way to another and it continues to twine and branch until it resembles a fine densely tangled web of thin stems enveloping the Host plant.