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Ecophysiology of Xylem-Tapping Mistletoes

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Progress in Botany

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The term “mistletoe” has a double meaning: sensu stricto it applies to Viscum album L. (European mistletoe), but it is more generally used to describe perennial (usually woody) flowering plants which are attached to the shoot of trees or shrubs (Barlow 1987). The majority of the approximately 1300 mistletoe species fall into the two closely related families Loranthaceae and Viscaceae within the order Santalales (Calder 1983).

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  1. Zellenlehre, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    H.-D. Behnke

  2. Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Botanik, Ruhr Universität, D-44780, Bochum, Germany

    K. Esser

  3. Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Universität Mainz, Saarstraße 21, D-55099, Mainz, Germany

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Popp, M., Richter, A. (1998). Ecophysiology of Xylem-Tapping Mistletoes. In: Behnke, HD., Esser, K., Kadereit, J.W., Lüttge, U., Runge, M. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80446-5_22

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