Parasitic angiosperms, comprising a diverse group of flowering plants, are partially or fully
dependent on their hosts to acquire water, mineral nutrients and organic compounds. Some …

Parasitic flowering plants are characterized by the development of an organ known as
haustorium, which has evolved in multiple independent angiosperms clades. The …

Monier Abd El-Ghani was born on September 9th, 1955 in Cairo, Egypt. In 1976, he
graduated in botany from the Faculty of Science, Cairo University (Egypt); from this institution …

Ethnopharmacological relevance The botanical identity of the ancient vernacular
cynomorium does not correspond to the modern scientific genus while it is not clear how …

Grasslands represent an essential part of terrestrial ecosystems. In particular, coastal
grasslands are dominated by the influence of environmental factors resulting from sea–land …

Abstract Cistanche phelypaea (L.) Cout.(Orobancaceae) was found parasitising the roots of
the succulent shrublets Arthrocnemum macrostachyum (Moric.) K. Koch (Chenopodiaceae) …

Parasitic plants live at the expense of other plants on which they depend for growth and
development (ter Borg, 1977). Among the parasitic angiosperms, a distinction must be made …

The fungal colonization of the angiosperm root parasite Cynomorium coccineum and the
halophytic hosts Limonium delicatulum and Arthrocnemum glaucum were investigated in a …

Plants normally function as physiological units that respond to ambient conditions regulating
their water relations, mostly independent of other organisms that co-occur in the same …

The perennial angiosperm holoparasite Cynomorium coccineum L.(Cynomoriaceae) was
found infecting the roots of halophytes in a Mediterranean coastal salt marsh in Egypt. The …