Parasitic plants are notorious agricultural pests that drain nutrients from crops and cause economic losses of more than USD 1 billion due to yield losses every year. Yet these plants almost never ...
Recently, scientists from the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science provided new insights into the correlation between cucurbit root volatiles and ...
The first known occurrence in North America of a devastating root parasite that affects sunflowers has been confirmed in Yakima, state agriculture officials reported. Orobanche cumana, commonly known ...
Plant-parasitic nematodes pose a major global threat to crop productivity by penetrating roots, inducing galls or lesions and disrupting nutrient and water uptake. Their success is intimately linked ...
Sorghum crops in sub-Saharan Africa suffer heavy losses from the parasitic plant witchweed (Striga hermonthica). A new study shows how soil microbes can help protect sorghum from this pest and could ...
Why have some orchids stopped photosynthesis and become parasites feeding on fungi? Kobe University researchers found that in at least one species the transition may be driven by the opportunity more ...
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