"If you keep at it, finally the roots will die."

The original root of the dodder in the soil then dies.

If the root dies, The branches and the leaves will die.

The trick is to keep the fuchsias from drying out too completely so that the roots die.

If you spray it on established grass and perennial weeds, they will lose top growth but the roots won't die.

If the root of an aspen dies, it is unlikely to reproduce.

This is going to be a long, tedious process, but the plants will eventually become so weak that the roots die.

To the west, where the soil is dead, there the old roots die.

However, through the 1960s the results of radio astronomy took root and oceanic Venus died.

Eventually, the roots die, starved of nutrients from the leaves.