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    In botany and mycology, a haustorium (plural haustoria) is a rootlike structure that grows into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients...
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    They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract water and nutrients from the host plant. The...
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    hours of initial haustorium growth, the haustorium recognizes the host root and begins rapid cell division and elongation. The haustorium forms a wedge shape...
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    islands. Retrieved 25 April 2019. Rajamohan, T; Chikku, AM (2012). "Coconut haustorium maintains cardiac integrity and alleviates oxidative stress in rats subjected...
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    Haustrum haustorium, common name: the brown or dark rock shell, is a large species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae...
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    every biome. All parasitic plants develop a specialized organ called the haustorium, which penetrates the host plant, connecting them to the host vasculature...
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    out of the functional pore and forms a haustorium (the coconut sprout) inside the central cavity. The haustorium absorbs the solid endosperm to nourish...
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    Basidiospore/Basidium/Teliospore anamorph/asexual: Sporangium Conidium Chlamydospore Oidium Pycniospore Other Hypha Haustorium Mycelium Cell wall Sporocarp...
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  • lobes. Compare sagittate, which refers to basal lobes pointing backward. haustorium In parasitic plants, a structure developed for penetrating the host's...
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    develops a tuber the haustorium diminishes to the point that when E. virginiana has reached maturity there is no visible haustorium, instead the parasite...
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    leaves 4). Ground tissue 5). Phloem 6). Sugars and nutrients 7). Epidermal tissue 8). A Cuscuta haustorium growing into the phloem of the host plant....
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    species. The plant parasitises the roots of other tree species, with a haustorium adaptation on its own roots, but without major detriment to its hosts...
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    usually individually wrapped by hyphae, and in some cases penetrated by a haustorium. In crustose and foliose lichens, algae in the photobiontic layer are...
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    apoplast, thus preventing the nutrients reaching the plant's cells. The haustorium contains amino acid- and hexose sugar- transporters and H+-ATPases which...
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    which climbs other plants and takes nutrition directly from them via a haustorium. The dodder resembles a pile of yellow-orange straw wrapped tightly around...
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  • ground that do not feed from their tree support (for example through their haustorium or feeding part having dug into the tree, such as Mistletoe) have subaerial...
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    Vitaceae, the grape vine family), spreading its absorptive organ, the haustorium, inside the tissue of the vine. The only part of the plant that can be...
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    which may be simple or composite, commonly called the terminal or primary haustorium. Plants are reduced to short vegetative stems, their alternate leaves...
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    shrub, which grows on the stems of other trees. The plant contains a haustorium that connects it to the host tree by connecting the xylem and phloem of...
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    which climbs other plants and takes nutrition directly from them via a haustorium. The dodder resembles a pile of light yellow to orange-red straw wrapped...
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    23: The shoot has made contact with the host plant. Day 30: The primary haustorium has developed. William Henry Harvey: Flora Capensis 2: 581 Robert Allen...
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  • exhaustion, exhaustive, hauriant, haurient, haustellate, haustellum, haustorium, haustrum, inexhaustible, nonexhaustive heb- youth Greek ἥβη (hḗbē), ἡβητικός...
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    internal haustorium that can be heart-shaped, globose, or lobose. Trailing chains of four or more conidia are produced from the haustorium. Zygospores...
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    water needs, and some of its energy needs, from the host tree using a haustorium which grows into the stems of the host. The flowers are inconspicuous...
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    the sporangium and penetrate the leaf cell where it will form a haustorium. The haustorium absorbs nutrients from the leaf, while hyphae invade the intercellular...
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    Dactylanthus taylorii is a round, warty, tuber-like stem (up to 50 cm wide) or haustorium with no roots, which draws nutrients from the roots of its host. Its leaves...
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    fruit is waxy. Roots are adapted to a hemiparasitic mechanism, using a haustorium, on roots able to reach out 10 m to other root systems. The species shares...
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    germination. Once in contact with the root, the witchweed produces a haustorium establishing a parasitic relationship with the plant. It remains underground...
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    seeds germinate within the tree for several years, eventually producing a haustorium, a root-like structure, that penetrates the host plant and extracts water...
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  • towards the micropylar end becomes swollen and functions as a haustorium. The haustorium has wall ingrowths similar to those of a transfer cell. The last...
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