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dodder

Chinese medicine
A parasitic growth on plants, the seeds of which are tonic, nutritive and general stimulants. Dodder is used to strengthen the musculoskeletal system, retard ageing and improve vision, and it has been used for impotence, premature ejaculation, urinary frequency and incontinence, diarrhoea, low back pain, pre-senile dementia, prostate problem, threatened abortion, tinnitus, vertigo and blurred vision.

Herbal medicine
European dodder has been used by Western herbalists as a laxative and for renal and hepatic disease.
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MITIGATIONProf Matthew Dida, the Head of the Department of Agriculture at Maseno University, said that there are different kinds of Dodder species which can affect indigenous vegetables and trees."It is possible that the parasitic plant could evolve to affect other species that have not been under attack so far," said Prof Dida, pointing out that the most affected tree species in western Kenya are in the family of the yellow oleander, usually preferred for live fencing.
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Following dodder attachment to pairs of donor and receiver host plants, I randomly assigned plant pairs to one of four treatments: 1) donor plant shaded, 2) donor plant fertilized, 3) donor plant shaded and fertilized, or 4) control.
Field dodder (Cuscuta campestris) does not promote nutrient transfer between parasitized host plants
The total carotenoid extracted from the stem of dodder was estimated spectrophotometrically.
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Resembling orange cheese sprayed in threads from a can, dodder looks a bit like the modern art version of parasitic plants: messy, perhaps vulgar and with a decidedly non-plant color.
Parasitic plant gets more than a meal
Mescher discovered that some plants, like wheat, release chemicals that the dodder avoids.
Plant hunter
In addition, numerous samples of undergraduate students have been studied (Courtenay & Weidemann, 1985; Luszcz, 1982; Miller & Dodder, 1980; Palmore, 1977; 1981).
ASSESSING STUDENT'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE AGING PROCESS
figure By PIUS MAUNDU Sometime in June last year, Dorothy Katilo, a farmer in Makueni, walked home in high spirits after she landed from a neighbour a handful of vines from a plant known as Japanese dodder (Cuscuta japonica).She was happy because the plant at the neighbour's home had formed an enviable canopy atop trees under which visitors sheltered.
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The Rivers Dodder & Poddle: Mills, Storms, Droughts and the Public Water Supply
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