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Dear Colleagues at the IPPS, To date few journals accept video articles for submission/publication in our field, despite this type of articles being very engaging […]

Recently, Jianqiang Wu Group at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Kunming, China revealed that the parasitic plant dodder can bridge […]

Recently, the Jianqiang Wu Group at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Kunming, China uncovered how a dodder plant controls its […]

Plants (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/plants) announced the special issue “Parasitic Weeds: Biology and Control”. Plants (ISSN 2223-7747; CODEN: PLANCD) is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal published […]

Our understanding of how obligate parasites in the Orobanchaceae sense host germination stimulants has advanced dramatically in the last several years, with some important discoveries […]

Plants constantly adapt their metabolism and signaling to survive in a highly dynamic environment. In the past few years, the integration of metabolomics and other […]

Parasitic plants are plants that connect with a haustorium to the vasculature of another, host, plant from which they absorb water, assimilates, and nutrients. Because […]

Parasitic plants connect to the vasculature of a host plant and take part or all of the water, nutrients, and assimilates they need to complete […]

Information on parasitic and non-parasitic weed occurrence within croplands is vital but is often unavailable to support weeding practices and improve cropland productivity assessments. Until […]

Open Access, Research Review, New Phytologist,  https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17271 Authors: Immaculate M. Mwangangi, Lucie Büchi, Stephan M. Haefele, Lammert Bastiaans, Steven Runo & Jonne Rodenburg In this review paper we […]

This review paper published in New Phytologist (Mutuku et al., 2021) illustrates recent progress on the molecular interaction between Orobanchaceae parasites and hosts with special […]

Parasitic plants are highly diverse in terms of their evolutionary history, life cycles, growth habits, structure, etc. Even the haustorium, which “embodies the idea of […]