Wet Plant Lab (Archived)
Document Type
Video
Video Length
2 minutes 39 seconds
Publication Date
12-22-2020
Abstract
Please, join us as we come face-to-leaf with a vampire of the plant kingdom: Mistletoe. This bloodsucker (well, sapsucker) may be a keystone parasite, eliminating trees unable to appease its appetite. Thereby, mistletoes may be able to engineer the structure of forests within their reach. So, are we at the forest floor simply the audience to a larger puppet show, where ecological interactions are plucks of haustorial puppet strings from some vampiric Geppetto hidden in the canopy above? Further information can be found in these references: Mistletoe, friend or foe? https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa8fff A keystone parasite? https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0856 Why is viscin so sticky? https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournal... Descriptions of mistletoe seeds in bird poop: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2012.... The biotech value of viscin? https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16144 Want more mistletoe ecophysiology? https://doi.org/10.1139/B08-096 Illustration and video editing by Zachary O. Burch - Please check out his channel, Cecil Selwyn (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnYX...) We thank the peer reviews of: Dr. Sybil Gotsch (http://www.sybilgotsch.com/) Dr. Cameron Williams (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...) Script, music and narration: John Van Stan Special thanks to Charles Peck for the mix! http://charlespeckmusic.com/ Thumbnail photograph: Invasion of the Harlequin Mistletoe by Boobook48 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://bit.ly/3mHJcMD
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Van Stan, John T. II, "Mistletoe: The Kiss of Death" (2020). Wet Plant Lab (Archived). 5.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ferl-videos/5
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