Question

Write about the parasitic nutrition in cuscuta species

Answer 1

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Cuscuta is a parasitic plant. It has no chlorophyll and cannot make its own food by photosynthesis. Instead, it grows on other plants, using their nutrients for its growth and weakening the host plant. ... Once they are firmly attached to a host, the cuscuta root withers away.

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Answer 2

• Dodder (genus cuscuta) is a leafless twining, parasitic plant which belongs to family convolvulaceae.

• The dooder contains no chlorophyll and instead absorbs food through haustoria.

• The dooder's seed germinates forming and anchoring root and then sends up a slender stem that grows in a spiral fashion until it reaches a host plant.

• It twines around the stem and the haustoria penetrate into it which absorb the nutrients from the host plant.

• Mean while the roots rot away after the stem comes in contact with the host plant and establishes itself very firmly with the help of new haustoria.

• These haustoria twine around new branches thus forming a fine densly tangled web of the stem enveloping the host plant.

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