Parasitic weeds of the Orobanchaceae family cause substantial economic losses and pose significant threats to global agriculture. However, management of these parasites is challenging, and very few resistance genes have been cloned and characterized in depth. Here, we performed a genome-wide association study using 152 tomato accessions and identified SlABCG45 as a key gene that […]
*** Online survey on parasitic weeds in Europe *** Please help us to reach out to farmers and extension/research professional working with farmers in Europe for this online survey on parasitic weeds! You can access the English. French or Dutch versions (IT/ES/PT/ DE versions follow soon) here: tinyurl.com/parasiticweeds […]
The Cuscuta transformation paper is now available online in the New Phytologist journal. It also became a cover page. Here is the link. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20140?af=R#:~:text=Although%20Cuscuta%20species%20have%20been,produce%20flowers%20and%20viable%20seeds. […]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108243 […]
https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-06-24-0064-FI […]
Our Editorial article ‘Parasitic plants are models for examining global food security, biodiversity loss and host–parasite evolution, in a changing world scheduled for a forthcoming issue of Parasitic Plants, People, Planet is now available at: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10616. […]
Plant & Cell Physiology (@PCP_EIC), the official journal of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, will publish a special issue on parasitic plants in 2025. Research paper submissions are due by April 25, 2025, and review paper submissions by June 15, 2025. More details can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/special_list […]
The use of strigolactone (SL) analogs as suicidal germination agents to control the seed banks of the parasitic weed Striga hermonthica has gained interest for field applications in recent years. However, concerns about the environmental safety of these SL analogs remain. In this study, we evaluated the mutagenic potential of two selected SL analogs, Methyl Phenlactonoate 3 […]
Holoparasitic plants such as Orobanche are thought to act as a strong sink for host resources. Here, we tested the effect of nutrient supply to parasitized or unparasitized roots of red clover plants growing in a splot root box. We found that host growth was strongly suppressed by the parasite when nutrients were fed to […]
Facultative root hemiparasites likely connect to several hosts at the same time. However, most studies use single-association experiments, where a host and parasite are grown together in a pot. In this study, we used a split root box which allows us to control both the number of hosts and nutrient supply to each plant independently. […]