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Weeds are a major challenge in arable farming, vegetable, and fruit production. With increasing restrictions on herbicide use, effective weed management is becoming more difficult. […]

Parasitic plants initiate haustorium formation—a critical step in parasitism and nutrient acquisition—by recognizing haustorium inducing factors (HIFs) from their hosts. However, the mechanisms by which […]

The ability of parasitic plants to withdraw nutrients from their hosts depends on the formation of an infective structure known as the haustorium. How parasites […]

A recent study by Gabriela S. Olivares et al., conducted in the southern South American temperate rainforests, revealed how habitat structure influences the behavior of […]

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 […]

*** Online survey on parasitic weeds in Europe ***  Please help us to reach out to farmers and extension/research professional working with farmers in Europe […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]