Parasitic plants rely on neighboring host plants to complete their life cycle, forming vascular
connections through which they withdraw needed nutritive resources. In natural ecosystems …

Parasitic plants are plants that connect with a haustorium to the vasculature of another, host,
plant from which they absorb water, assimilates, and nutrients. Because of this parasitic …

In contrast to most autotrophic plants, which produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide
using photosynthesis, parasitic plants obtain water and nutrients by parasitizing host plants …

The Striga, particularly S. he rmonthica, problem has become a major threat to food security,
exacerbating hunger and poverty in many African countries. A number of Striga control …

Parasitic plants in the family Orobanchaceae, such as Striga, Orobanche and Phelipanche,
often cause significant damage to agricultural crops. The Orobanchaceae family comprises …

Parasitic plants form a specialized organ, a haustorium, to invade host tissues and acquire
water and nutrients. To understand the molecular mechanism of haustorium development …

Mitogenomes of most flowering plants evolve slowly in sequence, but rapidly in structure.
The rearrangements in structure are mainly caused by repeat-mediated recombination …

Plants have evolved diverse strategies to meet their nutritional needs. Parasitic plants
employ haustoria, specialized structures that facilitate invasion of host plants and nutrient …

Host plant defence mechanisms (resistance and tolerance) and plant nutrition are two of the
most widely proposed components for the control of hemiparasitic weeds of the genus Striga …

Parasitic flowering plants are characterized by the development of an organ known as
haustorium, which has evolved in multiple independent angiosperms clades. The …