haustorium|haustoria in English

noun

small sucking organ through which certain parasites feed

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1. Mature haustoria of H. parasitica were distinctly pyriform in shape.

2. Beechdrops have a special structure on their roots called a haustorium

3. Viscum minimum, adhesive disk, adhesive epithelium, cuticle ultrastructure, cutin cystolith, haustorium, secretion.

4. The micropylar haustorium consists of two cells with only one endopolyploid nucleus in each.

5. None of the haustoria in epidermal cells showed any structural abnormality.

6. Calcium chloride enhanced the incidence of haustoria but depressed that of papillae.

7. Deep down, Beechdrops lives by connecting its haustoria to the roots of the beech below ground in winter

8. The haustorium engulfs the root of the target plant (Beechdrops are obligate parasites of beech trees) and taps the root for its life-giving sap.

9. Broomrapes produce little or no chlorophyll; instead, they draw nourishment from the roots of other plants by means of small suckers called haustoria.

10. Beechdrops (Epifagus virginiana) are parasitic plants which obtain nutrients from the American Beech tree.They insert a root-like structure called a haustorium into a beech root and absorb enough nutrition to sustain themselves …

11. Haustoria A specialized outgrowth of many parasitic fungi and certain parasitic plants such as dodder and broomrape, that penetrates into and withdraws food material from the cells of the host plant.

12. Up to the onset of sporulation at 8 days after inoculation the only major alteration in cell structure was a marked tendency for the cell organelles to be aggregated around the intracellular fungal haustorium and an accumulation of starch in the plastids.