Background: Genetic improvement for Striga hermonthica (Sh) and S. asiatica (Sa) resistance is the most economical and effective control method to enhance the productivity of maize and other major cereal crops. Hence, identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with Striga resistance...
hermonthica were investigated in the S. hermonthica EST Database (http://striga.psc. riken.jp/est2uni/) and Parasitic Plant Genome Project (http://ppgp.huck.psu.edu/). Sequences were further fil- tered and screened for truncation and duplication. Phylogenetic tree was created using MEGA ...
hermonthica genome associated with parasite host range. The first outlier analysis is described below, and was tailored to our experimental design. It aimed to identify candidate AFLP loci that exhibited an outlier pattern of genetic differentiation (that is, those under differential selection) among...
Certain Fusarium exometabolites have been reported to inhibit seed germination of the cereal-parasitizing witchweed, Striga hermonthica, in vitro. However, it is unknown if these exometabolites will consistently prevent S. hermonthica incidence in planta
A recent study that used whole genome oligonucleotide arrays to examine the transcriptome of A. thaliana roots after inoculation with pre-germinated S. hermonthica seeds found that large numbers of genes involved in cell wall synthesis, defense signaling, regulation of transcription and protein synthes...
Development of microsatellite markers for characterizing diversity in a parasitic witchweed, Striga hermonthica (Orobanchaceae) Twelve polymorphic microsatellite loci were identified in the root parasite witchweed ((Del.) Benth.). These twelve loci exhibited 4-16 alleles each across... M Estep,TAV ...
GENOME-wide association studiesSORGHUMBILL & Melinda Gates FoundationMILLETSTECHNICAL reportsThis document is a correction notice for an article titled "Genome-wide association analyses of agronomic traits and Striga hermonthica resistance in pearl millet." The original article, ...
asiatica is closely related to Striga hermonthica and Striga sepera. The comprehensive chloroplast genomic resource of S. asiatica would assist researchers in comprehending hemiparasitic mechanisms, molecular markers, and evolutionary patterns of the genus Striga....
hermonthica. A significant portion of the Striga-specific secretome set was differentially expressed during parasitism, which we probed further to identify genes following a 'wave-like' expression pattern peaking in the early penetration stage of infection. We identified 39 genes encoding putative VFs...
Here, we show that expression of SL receptors from the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica in the presence of SLs circumvents the GA requirement for germination of Arabidopsis thaliana seed. Striga receptors co-opt and enhance signalling through the HYPOSENSITIVE TO LIGHT/KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE 2 (...