The parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris grows by latching onto the stems and leaves of plants and inserting organs called haustorium into the host plant tissues to draw nutrients. The haustorium is ...

Trichoferus campestris. Photo by Christopher Pierce, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org. Survey Information. The velvet longhorned beetle (Trichoferus campestris) is native in Asia and Russia and feeds ...

According to Fereidoon Shahidi in "Canola and Rapeseed: Production, Chemistry, Nutrition and Processing Technology" (Van Nostrand Reinhold 1990), "There are three basic species [of rapeseed]: B ...

Fresh buttons of Agaricus campestris fixed in the standard fixing agents show shrinkage and tearing of the fundamental tissue within 6 to 24 hours after fixation. 2. Fresh and dead carpophores of A.

Further, Cuscuta campestris has many types of ion channels, but which ones were linked to the development of haustorium were previously unknown. "For the first time, the genes involved in sensing ...