Meaning of haustorium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host.
2. A cellular structure, growing into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients, such as a cotyledon.

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“In the substomatal chamber all the signals that regulate the interaction between fungus and host⟳ are present⟳ along the entire structure⟳ of the rust fungus, from the vesicle to the first haustorium which, in the dikaryotic stage⟳, is the first intracellular structure⟳ (Mendgen et al., 1988; Heath, 1989, 1995).”

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