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genus Plantago

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Noun1.genus Plantago - type genus of the family Plantaginaceaegenus Plantago - type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
family Plantaginaceae, Plantaginaceae, plantain family - cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds
plantain - any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally


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To determine whether gene transfer takes place in the opposite direction--from parasite to host--Palmer's team compared several genes from different species of the common weed genus Plantago with those in parasitic flower species of the Bartsia and Cuscuta genera.
 
 
 
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