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Pyrularia
Sign in to savePyrularia is a small genus of shrubs or small trees in the sandalwood family (Santalaceae) which contains two species, Pyrularia pubera and Pyrularia edulis. P. pubera grows in the eastern United States and P. edulis grows in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Both species are parasitic plants, specifically hemiparasites, which while still photosynthetic, will also parasitize the roots of other plants around them.
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GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSantalales
- FamilyCervantesiaceae
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Research
38 papers- Pyrularia thionin. Physical properties, binding to phospholipid bilayers and cellular responses.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 1996
- Pyrularia thionin increases arachidonate liberation and prolactin and growth hormone release from anterior pituitary cells.Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology · 1992
- Cellular responses to Pyrularia thionin are mediated by Ca2+ influx and phospholipase A2 activation and are inhibited by thionin tyrosine iodination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1989
- Modification of phospholipid membrane structure by the plant toxic peptide Pyrularia thionin.Archives of biochemistry and biophysics · 1993
- Phospholipase activation in the cytotoxic mechanism of thionin purified from nuts of Pyrularia pubera.Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology · 1990
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Pyrularia is a small genus of shrubs or small trees in the sandalwood family (Santalaceae) which contains two species, Pyrularia pubera and Pyrularia edulis. P. pubera grows in the eastern United States and P. edulis grows in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Both species are parasitic plants, specifically hemiparasites, which while still photosynthetic, will also parasitize the roots of other plants around them.
==Taxonomy== The genus was first formally named in 1803 by French botanist André Michaux. The name Pyrularia derives from the Latin pyrus meaning "pear" and aria meaning "connecting" — this relates to the shape of the fruit.