Advances on the Visualization of the Internal Structures of the European Mistletoe: 3D Reconstruction Using Microtomography.

ABSTRACT: The European mistletoe (Viscum album) is a dioecious epiphytic evergreen hemiparasite that develops an extensive endophyte enabling the absorption of water and mineral salts from the host tree, whereas the exophytic leaves are photosynthetically active. The attachment mode and host penetration are well studied, but little information is available about the effects of mistletoe age and sex on haustorium-host interactions. We harvested 130 plants of Viscum album ssp. album growing on host branches of Aesculus flava for morphological and anatomical investigations. Morphometric analyses of the mistletoe and the (hypertrophied) host interaction site were correlated with mistletoe age and sex. We recorded the morphology of the endophytic systems of various ages by usi

SUBMITTER: Mylo MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8488221 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature