Striga (Striga hermonthica), commonly known as witchweed, is an obligate root parasitic weed that poses a major threat to global food security and cereal production in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, uncontrolled Striga infestation is causing significant losses in cereal production, affecting crop yields of cereals equating to at least $7 billion each year. There has been […]
IPPS Seminar #12 with Mike Axtell, Claire Baker, and David Sands on May 4, 2022, 3 PM GMT
The International Parasitic Plant Society is pleased to host the next round of talks of the IPPS Online Seminar Series on April 06, 2022 at 3:00 PM GMT*: Talk #1: Mike Axtell (PennState University, USA) – Molecular evolution and transcriptional control of trans-species microRNA from Cuscuta campestris Talk #2: Claire Baker & Dave Sands (Toothpick project) – Control […]
WEBSITE: STRIGASOLUTION https://strigasolutions.com
Dear respected society members, I would like to share our website “Strigasolution”. We tried to show our ongoing activities on the Striga Control Project, funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Home Muhammad JAMIL […]
Conference: Parasitic Flowering Plants in Forests
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 […]
IPPS Seminar #11 with Benjamin Thiombiano and Satoshi Ogawa on April 6, 2022, 3 PM GMT
The International Parasitic Plant Society is pleased to host the next round of talks of the IPPS Online Seminar Series on April 06, 2022 at 3:00 PM GMT*: Talk #1: Benjamin Thiombiano (University of Amsterdam, NL) – to be announced Talk #2: Satoshi Ogawa (RIKEN, Japan) – to be announced The Zoom link can be accessed from […]
IPPS Seminar #10 with Luiza Teixeira and Runxian Yu on March 2, 2022, 3 PM GMT
The International Parasitic Plant Society is pleased to host the next round of talks of the IPPS Online Seminar Series on March 02, 2022 at 3:00 PM GMT*: Talk #1: Luiza Teixeira-Costa (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany) – New perspectives in haustorium structure and evolution across parasitic flowering plants Talk #2: Runxian Yu (CAS, Beijing) – The minicircular and extremely heteroplasmic mitogenome […]
Change of date: 16th World Congress on Parasitic Plants, 3–8 July 2022, Nairobi, Kenya
We are delighted to inform you that the 16th World Congress on Parasitic Plants will be held from 3–8 July, 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting will be blended so people can attend on location as well as online. We hope to see as many of you as possible on location to fully use the […]
A host-free transcriptome for haustoriogenesis in Cuscuta campestris: signature gene expression identifies markers of successive development stages
The development of the infection organ of the parasitic angiosperm genus Cuscuta is a dynamic process that is normally obscured from view as it happens endophytically in its host. We artificially induced haustoriogenesis in C. campestris by far-red light to define specific morphologically different stages and analyze their transcriptional patterns. This information enabled us to extract sets of high-confidence […]
IPPS Seminar #9 with Dorota Kawa on Feb 2, 2022, 3 PM GMT
The International Parasitic Plant Society is pleased to host the next round of talks of the IPPS Online Seminar Series on February 02, 2022 at 3:00 PM GMT*: Talk #1: Dorota Kawa (UC Davis, USA) – Mechanisms of microbe-induced resistance to Striga in sorghum The Zoom link can be accessed from this site in the IPPS Members-only Area (login required). […]
Localization of storage carbohydrate planteose and identification of the planteose hydrolytic enzyme OmAGAL2 in seeds of Orobanche minor
Using MALDI-MS imaging, we visualized the localization of trisaccharide planteose in the dry seeds of Orobanche minor. Planteose was revealed to accumulate outside of the embryo, which supported the role of planteose as a storage carbohydrate. Since the first step of planteose is the hydrolysis of α-galactosyl linkage, we surveyed α-galactosidases in our transcriptome data. Among the […]