Parasitism Week 6-7

An organism that lives on or in some other organism and obtains its food from the latter is called a parasite. The removal of food by a parasite from its host is called
parasitism. A plant parasite is an organism that becomes intimately associated with a plant and multiplies or grows at the expense of the plant. The removal by the
parasite of nutrients and water from the host plant usually reduces efficiency in the normal growth of the plant and becomes detrimental to the further development and reproduction of the plant. In many cases, parasitism is intimately associated with pathogenicity, i.e., the ability of a pathogen to cause disease.
 

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