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• n  plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it

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• Gene sequencing targets witchweed, parasitic plants
  DAVIS — An international research team, including a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, is using the molecular magic of gene sequencing and transfer to break the stranglehold of witchweed and other parasitic plants that annually cause billions of dollars in crop losses around the world.
  Aug. 1, 2013 - UC Newsroom
• Gene sequencing targets witchweed and other destructive parasitic plants
  An international research team, including a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, is using the molecular magic of gene sequencing and transfer to break the stranglehold of witchweed and other parasitic plants that annually cause billions of dollars in crop losses around the world. Joining forces through the Parasitic Plant Genome Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, UC ...
  July 31, 2013 - UC Davis News & Information