Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!m2xenix!quagga!hippo!ccfj From: ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Cancer in plants? Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 20:12:30 GMT References: <3442@beguine.UUCP> <7412@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@quagga.ru.ac.za (Rhodes University NNTP server) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 17 >In article <3442@beguine.UUCP> rhunt@med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt) writes: >>Several days ago on the way to work I saw a strange growth on a tree. It >>had what looked like dozens of twigs growing from one spot. At first I >>thought it was a bird's nest, but it started sprouting leaves with the >>arrival of spring. Then I started to wonder if it would be a kind of cancer. >>So now it is stupid question time: Do plants get cancer? If they do, >>what does it look like? Could this growth be mistletoe? It tends to make trees supporting it look a bit odd. If this is the case, then it isn't cancer, but a parasite. -- F.F. Jacot Guillarmod - Computing Centre - Rhodes University Artillery Road - P.O Box 94 - Grahamstown - 6140 - South Africa Internet: ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za Phone: +27 [0]461 22023 xt 284 uucp: ..!uunet!m2xenix!quagga!hippo!ccfj Fax: +27 [0]461 25049