Mutualistic interactions between plants and fungi often occur in the rhizospere, although examples exist where shoot-endophytes support host growth and increase resistance to pathogens and herbivores. Fungal en
Micropredatorsuse a method of transmission that entails association with several hosts in a generation. Most of them are blood-sucking organisms, such as leeches, mosquitos, fleas and vampire bats. There are also examples of sap-sucking parasites of plants, such as the leafhopper. Parasitic castra...
Some spiders engage in a unique form of kleptoparasitism called ‘silk stealing.’ Silk thieves cut silk out of the hosts' orb webs and eat it. We have a few records of kleptoparasitism of terrestrial and marine gastropods. Carnivorous plants capture large quantities of high-quality food. A ...
Parasitism, relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other, sometimes without killing the host organism. Parasites may be characterized as ectoparasites, which live on the body surface of the host,
A parasitic lifestyle, where plants procure some or all of their nutrients from other living plants, has evolved independently in many dicotyledonous plant families and is a major threat for agriculture globally. Nevertheless, no genome sequence of a parasitic plant has been reported to date. Here...
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There is also strong evidence that micro-hyperparasite infection, in addition to inducing hypovirulence, can directly increase pathogen virulence (that is, induce hypervirulence). To date, one of the best described examples of hypervirulence comes from phage-encoded virulence factors in bacterial patho...
Epichloë fungal endophytes in plants of Achnatherum inebrians, increased the SA signaling pathway that would regulate the infection of a biotrophic fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis (Kou et al., 2021). Further Trichoderma strains, T. harzianum (ThM9) and T. virens (TvA1) isolated from roots...
What are examples of parasitic organisms? Tapeworms, fleas, and mosquitoes. 14 What is parasitism? A relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another. 13 Can a symbiotic relationship be harmful? Yes, in the case of parasitism. 13 How does symbiosis impact ecosystems? It plays...