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Toxins, 2022 Orobanche cumana is an obligate holoparasitic plant with noxious effects in sunflower crops. Bellardia trixago is a facultative hemiparasitic plant that infects ruderal plants without noxious significance in agriculture and is known to produce a wide ...
Gabriele Soriano +7 more
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Systems approaches to innovation in pest management: reflections and lessons learned from an integrated research program on parasitic weeds in rice [PDF]
, 2015 This paper provides a retrospective look at a systems-oriented research program, on the increasing occurrence of parasitic weeds in rainfed rice in sub-Saharan Africa, to qualitatively assess merits and identify challenges of such approach.
Aad van Ast +16 more
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Oléagineux, Corps gras, Lipides, 2011 The current decrease in herbicide use may increase and diversify weed flora in crops as well as companion bioagressors spreading via weeds. Among these bioagressors is Phelipanche ramosa (L.) Pomel, a parastic plant which is very harmful on oilseed rape.
Colbach Nathalie +2 more
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New Lepidoptera-Parasitoid Associations in Weedy Corn Plantings: A Potential Alternate Host for \u3ci\u3eOstrinia Nubilalis\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Parasitoids [PDF]
, 2017 Larvae of the common sooty wing, Pholisora catullus, and pupae of the yellow-collared scape moth, Cisseps Fulvicollis, were collected in corn plantings containing different manipulated, indigenous weed communities to determine if these Lepidoptera had ...
Pavuk, Daniel M, Stinner, Benjamin R
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High water availability increases the negative impact of a native hemiparasite on its non-native host [PDF]
, 2015 Environmental factors alter the impacts of parasitic plants on their hosts. However, there have been no controlled studies on how water availability modulates stem hemiparasites' effects on hosts.
A Mahapatro +4 more
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Genetic diversity and race composition of sunflower broomrape populations from Tunisia
Phytopathologia Mediterranea, 2018 Sunflower broomrape (Orobanche cumana Wallr.) was detected in 2010 for the first time in sunflower fields of Tunisia, in the Béja region. No information is available on the race composition and genetic diversity of the broomrape populations parasitizing ...
Malek JEBRI +4 more
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Testing the orthodoxies of land degradation policy in Swaziland [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores Swaziland's National Action Programme (NAP) to combat desertification; the country's main strategy for implementing the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
Stringer, L.C.
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Molecular mechanism of the parasitic interaction between Orobanche cumana wallr. and sunflowers
Journal of Plant Interactions, 2022 Orobanche cumana Wallr. is the most serious parasitic weed that threatens sunflower production in China, it infects sunflower roots and causes severe yield and economic losses. This study determined the effects of O. cumana infection on sunflower growth,
Yixiao Zhang +8 more
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Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 1998 Orobanche spp. are angiosperms that live parasitically on the roots of other plants, and are capable of significantly reducing the yield and quality of their crop hosts.
James H. Westwood +3 more
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Advances in Parasitic Weeds Research
, 2018 Parasitic weeds are severe constraint to agriculture and major crop production, and the efficacy of available means to control them is minimal. Control strategies have centred around agronomic practices, resistant varieties and the use of herbicides.
Diego Rubiales +3 more
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