Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered a benefit of vitamin C ...

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

Parasitic plants are notorious agricultural pests that drain nutrients from crops and cause economic losses of more than USD ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

Parasitic gastroenteritis is a form of gastrointestinal inflammation caused by a parasite. There are different types of parasitic infections that can lead to this form of gastroenteritis, but each one ...

Figure 1: Mean (± s.e.m.) values for plant community parameters as affected by the presence of R. minor after three years. Main treatment effects on biomass of the most frequent plant species, and on ...

For most of their lives, plants in the Sapria genus are barely anything — thin ribbons of parasitic cells winding inside vines in Southeast Asian rainforests. They become visible only when they ...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some ...

Overtaking a throne sometimes takes a touch of matricide. Some newly mated ant queens sneak into other ant colonies and spray their queens with a liquid that sends workers into a murderous frenzy, ...