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Meaning of "host plants"

Host plants are plants that serve as a habitat or food source for certain organisms, particularly insects or parasites. These organisms, known as hosts, rely on specific plant species to provide them with the necessary resources for their life cycle, reproduction, or feeding. The relationship between host plants and these organisms is often essential for their survival and propagation
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The host plants of this species are unknown.
The presence of wild solanaceous host plants.
They are host plants for their larvae.
Eggs are placed on diet cubes or host plants.
The host plants are willows and poplar.
Many species have specific host plants.
Host plants are the nurseries of the garden.
Different habitats with suitable host plants.
They host plants in pots or in the ground.
Butterflies need nectar and host plants.
Host plants and suitable habitats.
Most of its host plants are legumes.
Host plants and economic damage.
It pupates in rolled leaves of host plants or on the ground.
Different host plants are needed by different species of butterflies.

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Very little is known about their host plants.
Host plants of phytophagous insects are not equally attractive.
This is a brief list of some common host plants.
Many weeds act as host plants to soybean cyst nematode.
The mite has a wide range of host plants.
Host plants with roots.
It lays eggs in the leaf epidermis of host plants.
Host plants in the infested area and its vicinity.
The female lays eggs singly on host plants.
The caterpillar feeds on host plants of many different families.
Females lay eggs on leaves of the host plants.
Fungal endophytes colonize host plants without causing disease.
Windblown or splashed basidiospores infect new host plants.
Uses many host plants.
Host plants tell insects when to grow longer wings.
Both adults and nymphs attack host plants.
Other host plants.
Many caterpillars blend in with their host plants.
Host plants are grasses.
The immature stages and host plants are unknown.
Indication of the scientific name of the infested host plants.
The host plants have yet to be determined for some species.
Colour forms and host plants.
Host plants useful in the present invention are monocots and dicots.
Fungi with their host plants.
Breeders grow host plants for the larva that they are raising.
Monarchs use milkweeds as a host plants.
Phytotoxic responses of the host plants are also recorded at this time.
Most of these grasses are also larval host plants.
Name of host plants.
Males patrol for females near host plants.
The life histories of their host plants also influence butterfly behaviour.
Goldenrod is one of its host plants.
Host plants comprising an enzymatically susceptible protein may take a variety of forms.
Heterodera on the roots of host plants.

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