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Transcriptomics of host-specific interactions in natural populations of the parasitic plant purple witchweed (Striga hermonthica)

open access: yes, 2020
Host-specific interactions can maintain genetic and phenotypic diversity in parasites that attack multiple host species. Host diversity, in turn, may promote parasite diversity by selection for genetic divergence or plastic responses to host type.
Wafula, E.   +9 more
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The most widespread symbiosis on Earth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Parniske, Martin   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Control of witchweed Striga hermonthica by intercropping with Desmodium spp., and the mechanism defined as allelopathic

open access: yes, 2002
Overholt, W.   +7 more
core  

Where We Stand with Witchweed

Weeds, 1960
IATITCHWEED (Striga asiatica) was first collected and identified in V Vthe United States during the late summer of 1956. This parasite attacks the roots of plants primarily in the family Gramineae. In the United States it appears to be a potential threat to the corn and grain sorghum crops.
exaly   +2 more sources

Dihydroparthenolide and other sesquiterpene lactones stimulate witchweed germination

Phytochemistry, 1989
Abstract Four sesquiterpene lactones which share structural features of the lactone rings of strigol were tested as witchweed germination stimulants. Confertiflorin and parthenin significantly increased witchweed germination at 10 −4 M, and parthenin and desacetylconfertiflorin increased germination at 10 −5 M.
Nikolaus H Fischer, Judith M Bradow
exaly   +2 more sources

Witchweed [Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth] control using imazapyr seed coating in maize hybrids in the Nigerian savannah

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Plant Science, 2020
Witchweed [Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth] is a major parasitic weed of most cereal crops in Africa, including maize. Seed treatment with low doses of acetolactate synthase–inhibiting herbicides, such as imazapyr, was introduced in the 1990s to control ...
Abebe Menkir, David Chikoye
exaly   +2 more sources

Synthesis of the witchweed seed germination stimulant (+)-strigol

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1976
Charles J Sih
exaly   +2 more sources

Conferring resistance to parasitic witchweed by shifting strigolactone biosynthesis

Trends in Parasitology, 2023
Strigolactones from the exudates of maize root induce germination of the parasitic witchweed Striga. Recently, Li et al. characterized the biosynthesis pathway of two strigolactones, zealactol and zealactonoic acid, which induce less Striga germination than the major maize strigolactone, zealactone.
Rouhallah Sharifi   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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