The International Parasitic Plant Society is pleased to host the next round of talks of the IPPS Online Seminar Series on March 02, 2022 at 3:00 PM GMT*: Talk #1: Luiza Teixeira-Costa (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany) – New perspectives in haustorium structure and evolution across parasitic flowering plants Talk #2: Runxian Yu (CAS, Beijing) – The minicircular and extremely heteroplasmic mitogenome […]
We are delighted to inform you that the 16th World Congress on Parasitic Plants will be held from 3–8 July, 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting will be blended so people can attend on location as well as online. We hope to see as many of you as possible on location to fully use the […]
The development of the infection organ of the parasitic angiosperm genus Cuscuta is a dynamic process that is normally obscured from view as it happens endophytically in its host. We artificially induced haustoriogenesis in C. campestris by far-red light to define specific morphologically different stages and analyze their transcriptional patterns. This information enabled us to extract sets of high-confidence […]
The International Parasitic Plant Society is pleased to host the next round of talks of the IPPS Online Seminar Series on February 02, 2022 at 3:00 PM GMT*: Talk #1: Dorota Kawa (UC Davis, USA) – Mechanisms of microbe-induced resistance to Striga in sorghum The Zoom link can be accessed from this site in the IPPS Members-only Area (login required). […]
Using MALDI-MS imaging, we visualized the localization of trisaccharide planteose in the dry seeds of Orobanche minor. Planteose was revealed to accumulate outside of the embryo, which supported the role of planteose as a storage carbohydrate. Since the first step of planteose is the hydrolysis of α-galactosyl linkage, we surveyed α-galactosidases in our transcriptome data. Among the […]
Cuscuta australis R.Br. is a stem parasite that obtains water and nutrients from host plants, with which it also exchanges proteins and mRNAs with host plants. Recently, a study found that novel miRNAs accumulated during C. campestris Yunk. parasitism of Arabidopsis thaliana L. However, the fate of miRNAs transferred from parasite to host plants as well as their […]
Cascading effects are ubiquitous in nature and can modify ecological processes. Most plants have mutualistic associations with mycorrhizal fungi, and can be connected to neighboring plants through common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs). However, little is known about how the distribution of nutrients by CMNs to the interconnected plants is affected by higher trophic levels, such as […]
The International Parasitic Plant Society is pleased to host the next round of talks of the IPPS Online Seminar Series on December 1, 2021 at 3:00 PM GMT*: Talk #1: Kateřina Knotková (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) – Interactions between parasitic plants and invasive hosts: the experimental evidenceg molecules for combating Striga Talk #2: Emily Bellis (Arkansas State University) – Evolution […]
Our study proposes a rapid, accurate and low-cost phenotyping tool for the sunflower/O. cumana interaction under controlled conditions through image analysis for broomrape tubercle analysis at early stages of the interaction. We optimized the phenotyping of sunflower/O. cumana interactions by using rhizotrons (transparent Plexiglas boxes) in a growth chamber to control culture conditions and Orobanche inoculum. […]
Background: Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth and development. Upon P shortage, plant responds with massive reprogramming of transcription, the Phosphate Starvation Response (PSR). In parallel, the production of strigolactones (SLs)—a class of plant hormones that regulates plant development and rhizosphere signaling molecules—increases. It is unclear, however, what the functional link is […]