Dear members of the IPPS, In addition to our conference in Kenya this summer, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (https://www.iufro.org/) is organizing a parasitic plant session during the 2022 meeting of its Forest Health, Pathology and Entomology work group. The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 6 to 9 September 2022 […]

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 and useful to share new techniques and approaches. For this reason, under an invitation of the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), I decided to serve as guest editor for a […]

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 plant parasitism”, varies widely among and within parasite groups. But if we look past conspicuous differences, what can we learn about haustorium structure and evolution? Is there a common pattern […]