Cuscuta japonica (weed)
Cuscuta japonica (weed) Choisy - (Japanese dodder)
This parasitic plant is native to eastern Asia and has been introduced into North America. It has been reported to parasitise various host plants, including ornamentals and crops. Mostly herbaceous plants are affected, but also shrubs and trees. Infested plants show poor growth and chlorosis. They may wilt and die.
C. japonica has yellow stems with purplish spots. The flowers are greenish white and the sepals may be purplish. The seeds are around 2 mm wide.
Publications covering Cuscuta japonica (weed)
BMC Plant Biology (2022) 22 (393) - Integrated metabolomic and
Chenglin Guo, Liuyan Qin, Yongling Ma and Jianlin Qin (2022)
Integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of the parasitic plant Cuscuta japonica Choisy on host and non-host plants
Frontiers in Plant Science (2022) 2022 (13 - 904326)
Wei-Bin Wang, Fan-Fan Gao, Wei-Wei Feng, Qi-Ye Wu and Yu-Long Feng (2022)
The native stem holoparasitic Cuscuta japonica suppresses the invasive plant Ambrosia trifida and related mechanisms in different light conditions in northeast China
Weed Science (2022) 70, 543-552
Chaonan Cai, Jianhua Xiao, Jizhong Wan, Zichun Ren, Mark van Kleunen and Junmin Li (2022)
Implications of climate change for environmental niche overlap between five Cuscuta pest species and their two main Leguminosae host crop species
Plant Disease (2020) 104, p. 1877 (Qu et al.)
Xiao-Jian Qu, Li-Kang Liu, Luo-Yan Zhang, Xue-Jie Zhang and Shou-Jin Fan (2020)
First report of dodder (Cuscuta japonica) parasitizing Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora) in China
Plant Disease (2020) 104, p. 3084 (Qu et al.)
Xiao-Jian Qu and Shou-Jin Fan (2020)
First report of leaf wilt caused by Cuscuta japonica on generally insusceptible host plant Rhus typhina in China
Plant Disease (2015) 99, p. 1285 (Yuan et al.)
Y. Yuan, R. Zhou, J. Fu, J. Zhao and Z. Lu (2015)
First report of dodder (Cuscuta japonica) on Dictamnus dasycarpus in China
Plant Disease (2012) 96, p. 297 (Chen et al.)
C.Q. Chen, S. Han, J. Gao and L.N. Yang (2012)
First report of ginseng (Panax ginseng) as a natural host of dodder (Cuscuta japonica) in China
