News About the Parasitic Plant Connection
There have been a number of news stories featuring this website and D. Nickrent's research on parasitic plants.
July 6, 2005
Southern Spotlight. Plant Web site features "weirdest of the weird" article by Paula Davenport, SIUC. Web article HERE or HERE. The article was also picked up by the Morning Sentinel (Centralia and Mt. Vernon) HERE.
July 8, 2005
Watch movie about Nickrent's lab and parasitic plants! Television station KFVS 12 in Cape Girardeau Missouri featured Nickrent's lab and parasitic plants. Interview by Jason Lindsey. Web article titled "Bizarre Heartland Plants" can be seen HERE.
July 14, 2005
Daily Egyptian newspaper of SIUC, article titled "Weirdest of the Weird. Professor's Web page documents parasitic plants" by Laura Teegarden. Web version of article HERE.
August 3, 2005
SideTrack radio program from WILL public radio, the broadcasting service of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Sidetrack is AM 580's monthly news/features magazine hosted by Jason Croft. The segment of the program on parasitic plants ran Wednesday evening at 10 PM and Saturday August 6 at 5 PM. If you wish to listen to the program, you can download it from the archive at the above web page.
Fall (October) 2005
Freeloaders. Article by Marilyn Davis and Paula Davenport in Perspectives: Research and Creative Activities at SIUC. For a PDF of the article (864 k), click HERE.
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Last updated: 22-Dec-05 / dln