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- noun Plural form of
haustorium .
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Examples
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This means that although makes all or some of its own food (depending on the species) from the sun like other green plants, mistletoe sends root-like structures called haustoria down through the bark into the vascular tissue of its host plant.
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The causal agents of rusts and powdery mildew disease develop specialized nutrition sucking devices named 'haustoria'
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010
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It has no roots, instead attaching itself to its host tree with sucker-like organs called haustoria, through which it draws out water and nutrients.
An old chestnut, re-roasted ewillett 2007
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Try to loosen its hold on the support it is climbing up, and the secret of its guilt is out at once; for no honest vine is this, but a parasite, a degenerate of the lowest type, with numerous sharp suckers (haustoria) penetrating the bark of its victim, and spreading in the softer tissues beneath to steal all their nourishment.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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Callose encapsulation of haustoria occurring in incompatibility reactions between resistant hosts and pathogens prevent the pathogen's nutrient uptake.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010
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Conversely, in the case of compatible reactions between susceptible hosts and pathogens, β, 1-3 glucanase-induced callose degradation facilitates the absorption of nutrients by haustoria and promotes growth and sporulation
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010
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Voegele RT, Struck C, Hahn M, Mendgen K (2001) The role of haustoria in sugar supply during infection of broad bean by rust fungus
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010
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Having no roots of their own, they produce structures called "sinkers" and "haustoria" that penetrate the host's tissue.
Stories: Local News 2009
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Having no roots of their own, they produce structures called "sinkers" and "haustoria" that penetrate the host's tissue.
Stories: Local News 2009
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Fifteen genes were predicted to be proteins secreted from Pst haustoria.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Chuntao Yin 2009
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