Host use and foraging in the parasitic plant Cuscuta subinclusa.

Foraging theory predicts active responses by organisms upon encounter with a resource, as opposed to the passive responses of differential survivorship and growth. Stems of the parasitic plant Cuscuta subinclusa invest in resource acquisition (coil) relative to host quality in a way predicted by the...

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Main Author: Kelly, Colleen Kay.
Other Authors: Venable, D. Lawrence
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1988
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184543