Tomatoes Resist a Parasitic Vine by Detecting Its Peptide (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Tomatoes Resist a Parasitic Vine by Detecting Its Peptide (2 of 2)

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Flower of the dicotyledonous plant parasite Cuscuta reflexa. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 July 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by V. Hegenauer at University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Detection of the plant parasite Cuscuta reflexa by a tomato cell surface receptor."

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Dr. Eric Melzer

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