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<strong>HAUSTORIUM</strong> 61 1<br />
<strong>HAUSTORIUM</strong><br />
Parasitic Plants Newsletter<br />
ISSN 1944-6969<br />
Official Organ of the International Parasitic Plant Society<br />
(http://www.parasiticplants.org/)<br />
July 2012 Number 61<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Page<br />
Message from the IPPS President (Koichi Yoneyama)…………………………………………….. 2<br />
Striga gesnerioides and Striga asiatica in Namibia (Erika Maass et al.)…………………………… 2<br />
Note on the commercial use of Ximenia Americana (Lytton Musselman)………………………… 4<br />
Meeting report<br />
The VIth International Weed Science Congress (IWSC), Hangzhou, China, June 17-22, 2012….. 4<br />
Press releases/reports:<br />
Global Food Security Center Hires Manager, Receives Grants…………………………………… 7<br />
Mistletoe was controversial choice for Oklahoma flower……………………………………….... 8<br />
Global warming to spur invasive Australian ‘sleeper’ weeds……………………………….…….. 8<br />
Congratulations to:<br />
Dr Maurizio Vurro……………………………………………………………………………….. 9<br />
Dr Bikash Ray……………………………………………………………………………………. 9<br />
Forthcoming meeting<br />
12 th World Congress on Parasitic Plants (WCPP)………………………………………………… 9<br />
Thanks to Jim…………….................................................................................................................. 9<br />
General websites…………………………………………………………………………………….. 9<br />
Literature…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 10<br />
End Note……………………………………………………………………………………………… 30
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MESSAGE FROM THE IPPS PRESIDENT<br />
Dear IPPS Members,<br />
First of all, I would like to acknowlege the time and<br />
great efforts devoted by Jim Westwood during his<br />
presidency and finally in the election of IPPS executive<br />
members. I also thank all members who took part in this<br />
important election process. Now the new IPPS executive<br />
members are ready to lead the society with continuing<br />
support from you all.<br />
The new elected IPPS executive members are now: Julie<br />
Scholes (Vice President), John Yoder (Secretary) and<br />
Ahmet Uludag (Member at Large), Philippe Delavault<br />
(Treasurer), Harro Bouwmeester (Editor), and myself<br />
President.<br />
As the first mission of the new IPPS executive members,<br />
we are pleased to invite you to the 12 th World Congress<br />
on Parasitic Plants (WCPP), which will be held on<br />
Monday July 15 to Friday July 19, 2013 in Sheffield,<br />
UK. The venue will be the Edge Conference facility at<br />
the University of Sheffield. We are currently planning<br />
sessions and workshops and any inputs from the IPPS<br />
members will be highly appreciated. Please contact me<br />
or Julie by email. Details of venue, program, and<br />
progress can be followed on a special conference website<br />
which will be available from the beginning of September<br />
2012 (to follow shortly).<br />
During the VI International Weed Science Congress<br />
(IWSC) held in Hangzhou, China, a session on parasitic<br />
weeds was held as a joint IPPS symposium with the<br />
IWSC (see the meeting report below). To my<br />
knowledge, this was the first international symposium on<br />
parasitic weeds held in Asia at least in this century. The<br />
papers presented in the symposium were a good mix of<br />
basic and applied studies, and I was convinced that<br />
contributions to IPPS from Asian scientists would<br />
increase in the near future. This is because the number of<br />
scientists working on parasitic weeds in Asian countries<br />
has been gradually increasing probably due to the<br />
spreading parasitic weed problems. Thus, we should<br />
raise awareness about parasitic weeds in Southeast and<br />
East Asian countries where both root and stem parasitic<br />
weeds are becoming serious problems.<br />
Finally, I would like to express my sincere appreciation<br />
to Jim for his hard work on behalf of the society. Under<br />
his leadership, two IPPS meetings in Kusadasi (Turkey)<br />
and Martina Franca (Italy) have been held successfully<br />
and infra structure of IPPS including the constitution and<br />
election system has been established. Of course I am<br />
sure that Jim will continue to support and encourage us<br />
and the society.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Koichi Yoneyama, IPPS President<br />
yoneyama@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp<br />
STRIGA GESNERIOIDES AND STRIGA ASIATICA<br />
IN NAMIBIA<br />
As part of ongoing research collaboration among the<br />
University of Namibia, State University of New York-<br />
Oswego, and Old Dominion University, we surveyed<br />
Namibia for Striga gesnerioides and S. asiatica. Our<br />
field work covered 3500 km from the west coast north to<br />
the border with Angola and through the central part of<br />
the country. There are six species of the genus in<br />
Namibia with Striga gesnerioides and S. asiatica the<br />
most frequent. Striga hermonthica and S. forbesii have<br />
been collected but at present do not seem to be an<br />
agricultural problem. The other two, S. elegans and S.<br />
bilabiatia ssp bilabiata are confined to natural<br />
grasslands.<br />
Striga gesnerioides is the most variable of all<br />
witchweeds in term of morphology and host selection. It<br />
is a well-known and often serious parasite of cowpea,<br />
Vigna unguiculata (Fabaceae). Wild hosts that have<br />
been documented in Namibia include species of<br />
Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae), Ipomoea, Jaquemontia, and<br />
Merremia (Convolvulaceae); Indigofera, Alysicarpus<br />
and other wild legumes (Fabaceae), and Nicotiana<br />
(Solanaceae). Each of these hosts support populations<br />
with varying stem color, branching frequency, and<br />
flower color. Despite reports that such plants lack<br />
chlorophyll (e.g. Fischer et al., 2011, Willdenowia 41:<br />
51-56 – see Literature section below) we have always<br />
found chlorophyll, though it is masked by the<br />
anthocyanins.<br />
Here we confirm that a member of Bignoniaceae is host<br />
to S. gesnerioides. Some herbarium labels in Windhoek<br />
had suggested Catophractes as a possible host but we<br />
were able to confirm this now by excavating the parasite<br />
and tracing it to the root of the shrub. The flower and<br />
stem color of this variant are quite different from other<br />
morphotypes. Plants are always a reddish-purple with a<br />
purple corolla and a large haustorium (2.5 cm across).<br />
Of the various ‘strains’ of this species that we have<br />
studied in Africa, the Catophractes parasites most<br />
closely resemble those parasitizing Euphorbia.
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S. asiatica is native in Namibia and occurs scattered in<br />
acacia bush savannas. It is not clear if this is the source<br />
of the agronomically important parasites. S. asiatica<br />
parasitizing grasses has consistently shorter and round<br />
corolla lobes. We plan further research using molecular<br />
markers to determine the variability within both species<br />
of witchweed.<br />
Striga asiatica on Digitaria in Northern Namibia<br />
showing the short corolla lobes.<br />
Striga gesnerioides parasitising Catophractes alexandri,<br />
Outjo, Namibia. The woolly white leaves of the host are<br />
obvious.<br />
The cropping system in the communal farming regions<br />
of northern Namibia is mixed cropping with millet<br />
(Pennisetum americanum), known locally as mahango,<br />
and Zea mays the favoured cereals. Fields also contain<br />
bambara nuts (Vigna subterranea) and cowpea (Vigna<br />
unguiculata) and less frequently peanuts (Arachis<br />
hypogea). We found no S. gesnerioides on cowpea or<br />
bambara nut though there is one record in the Windhoek<br />
herbarium of S. gesnerioides on cowpea, which could be<br />
growing on a different host in a cowpea field. However,<br />
within these fields this parasite was frequent on<br />
Alysicarpus vaginalis and Indigofera arenophila.<br />
The situation with Striga asiatica is much different. At<br />
a new commercial maize cropping scheme near Rundu<br />
on the Angolan border, S. asiatica was parasitizing the<br />
crop. There was a marked increase in infestation since<br />
the first cropping season in 2011 when only a few Striga<br />
plants were observed. As a result, we examined about a<br />
dozen traditional fields that had mixed crops of mahango<br />
and maize. No witchweed was found on mahango or<br />
sorghum even when the maize was seriously attacked in<br />
the same field. Maize, a New World crop, is particularly<br />
susceptible to witchweed.<br />
Witchweed parasitizing maize in a mixed<br />
mahango/maize field, Rundu, Northern Namibia<br />
Several of the farmers we interviewed were unaware of<br />
the damage that S. asiatica can do to maize so it is<br />
important that a program for making them aware of the<br />
parasite, its potential, and its control be instituted as soon<br />
as possible.<br />
Erika Maass, University of Namibia;<br />
Kamal Mohamed, State University of New York-<br />
Oswego;<br />
Lytton Musselman, Old Dominion University.
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NOTE ON THE COMMERCIAL USE OF XIMENIA<br />
AMERICANA<br />
Known by the unhelpful common name of hogplum,<br />
Ximenia americana is a thorny, deciduous shrub in the<br />
family Ximeniaceae (formerly placed in the Olacaceae).<br />
In colloquial American English, a plant common name<br />
with ‘hog’ in it usually refers to something of inferior<br />
value to the original. However, the fruit of hogplum is<br />
quite tasty - as good as a real plum. It is also known as<br />
tallow wood.<br />
Fruits of Ximenia americana Photo Lytton Musselman<br />
This is perhaps the most widely distributed native<br />
parasitic plant on the globe. (The most widely distributed<br />
parasitic weed is Cuscuta campestris, native to the<br />
United States but spread around the globe.) I have seen<br />
stands of Ximenia in southern Florida in the United<br />
States where hogplum is common in dwarf oak sand<br />
scrub, central Sudan where the green color of the leaves<br />
stand out in the dry season, New Caledonia where it<br />
forms thickets near the coast, and many places in<br />
western and southern Africa. But it is also reported to<br />
form dense stands in Australia and elsewhere in tropical<br />
and semi-tropical regions in both the Western and<br />
Eastern hemispheres.<br />
I have traced its parasitic attachments to a diversity of<br />
hosts, it is a generalist in host selection. Germination of<br />
the large seeds is easy and unique. As the epicotyl<br />
emerges, the first two formed leaves, cataphylls, bend<br />
back into the inter-cotyledon space. Early naturalists<br />
noticed this and suggested that these cataphylls were<br />
forming parasitic attachments within the seed. Careful<br />
examination, however, shows that this is not the case,<br />
there is no connection between the cotyledons and<br />
cataphylls.<br />
During a recent visit to Namibia, I was surprised to learn<br />
of an industry that has arisen around this parasitic shrub.<br />
X. americana and the more restricted X. afra are quite<br />
common in the central and northern region of that<br />
country and the fruits are collected for the oil expressed<br />
from the seeds. In 2011, 16.5 tons of seeds where<br />
harvested for a value of approximately US$19,500<br />
according to Indigenous Natural Products in Namibia<br />
(INP Market Bulletin. 2011. Ximenia. Indigenous<br />
Natural Products in Namibia 3: 2.). That does not seem<br />
like a lot of money but represents a lot of Ximenia<br />
plants! And for the 300 or so collectors it is a significant<br />
income. Most of the oil is shipped to France for the<br />
cosmetics industry.<br />
Lytton John Musselman, Old Dominion University<br />
MEETING REPORT<br />
The VI International Weed Science Congress (IWSC)<br />
was held from 17 to 22 June 2012, at the New Century<br />
Grand Hotel Hangzhou, Hangzhou, China. The congress<br />
attracted 545 weed scientists from 51 countries. During<br />
this congress, a symposium on the ‘The state of art of<br />
parasitic plants research in the technological and<br />
biotechnological era’, organized by the International<br />
Parasitic Plant Society (IPPS) and the International<br />
Weed Science Society (IWSS), was held on Tuesday 19<br />
June, and the oral presentations were grouped into 4<br />
sessions; ecology and seed-bank, biology, and two<br />
management sessions. The number of abstracts<br />
submitted to this symposium was 34 and there were 18<br />
oral (including 3 invited talks) and 16 poster<br />
presentations. The final programme and the proceedings<br />
will soon be available from the IWSC homepage<br />
(http://www.congress.com.cn/IWSC2012/)<br />
Oral presentations:<br />
Ecology and seedbank<br />
Yongqing Ma (invited talk, China) - The parasitic weeds<br />
problems in China-past and present situation.<br />
A historical view of parasitic weed problems in China<br />
was given. Orobanche, Phelipanche and Cuscuta spp.<br />
are important weedy parasites in China but most of the<br />
attention and publications was focused on the herbal and<br />
medicinal traits of these plants and not on their<br />
damaging effect as parasitic weeds. In recent years up to<br />
50% crop loss in sunflower production due to O. cumana<br />
infection was reported. Severe crop loss due to P.<br />
aegyptiaca in melon and tomato was also reported.<br />
Cuscuta was described in an old Chinese book (2200<br />
years ago) but mainly as a medicinal herb. Since some<br />
water and methanol extracts of medicinal herbs could<br />
induce seed germination of Orobanche and Phelipanche<br />
spp., they could be used as trap crops.<br />
Marc Cotter (Germany) - Predicting the potential future<br />
geographic distribution of Striga under climate and<br />
land use change.<br />
Using GIS-based modeling complemented by<br />
greenhouse and field studies, the present geographic<br />
distribution of Striga species mainly in Sub-Saharan
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Africa was defined more precisely and its potential<br />
future expansion was predicted. Striga was found to<br />
occur as patches and may spread to areas of similar<br />
climate conditions like northern Australia in 2020. To<br />
improve reliability of the prediction, detailed data on<br />
Striga distribution, local climate factors, management<br />
practices, soil types, and vegetation need to be included.<br />
Rosemary I. Ahom (Nigeria) - Severity of Striga<br />
hermonthica (Del.) Benth.parasitism on small-scale<br />
maize farms in Benue State, Nigeria.<br />
Extensive and intensive surveys were conducted on the<br />
extent of S. hermonthica infestation on maize in lowinput<br />
farmers in Benue Sate Nigeria. The farmers<br />
identified Striga properly but 20% of them indicated that<br />
Striga was a useful medicinal herb. Striga infested both<br />
local and improved varieties and the more severe<br />
damage being observed in the former. Although<br />
intercropping was adopted widely, most of the farmers in<br />
the Northern zone gave up cropping maize due to the<br />
Striga problem. Hoe weeding was the only Striga control<br />
measure in their farms.<br />
Tuvia Yaacoby (Israel) - Survival of the parasitic weed<br />
Phelipanche aegyptiaca in compost.<br />
Since the source of heavy P. aegyptiaca infestations in<br />
tomato greenhouses was suspected to be parasite seeds<br />
originating from compost used as fertilizer, the ability of<br />
P. aegyptiaca seeds to survive the composting procedure<br />
was investigated. P. aegyptiaca seeds lost germinability<br />
when they were kept at > 55°C for 4 hours or at 45–50°C<br />
for 15 hours. Therefore, proper composting procedure<br />
can prevent spreading of P. aegyptiaca infestation.<br />
Yaakov Goldwasser (Israel) - Survival of seeds of<br />
parasitic weeds in cow manure.<br />
Cattle manure may contain weed seeds and thus has a<br />
high potential to disseminate them and infest farm fields.<br />
Seeds of P. aegyptiaca and C. campestris were examined<br />
for their survival after passing through the cow digestive<br />
system, in farm liquid slurry in the reception pits in<br />
cattle sheds and in compost piles. P. aegyptiaca seeds<br />
could not survive the 3 day passage through the cow<br />
stomach while up to 36% of Cuscuta seeds could<br />
survive. Similar trends could be observed in the<br />
submersion treatment in cattle slurry and in the compost<br />
pile. The resistance of C. campestris seeds is probably<br />
due to its hard seed coat.<br />
Biology<br />
Linjian Jiang (China) - Interspecies protein trafficking<br />
endows the parasitic flowering plant dodder (Cuscuta<br />
spp.) with a host-specific herbicide tolerant<br />
phenotype.<br />
It was examined how dodder (C. pentagona = C.<br />
campestris) interacted with transgenic glufosinate<br />
tolerant hosts carrying the detoxifying enzyme<br />
phosphinotricin acetyl transferase (PAT) gene. The<br />
interspecies trafficking of PAT protein from hosts to the<br />
parasite was detected by ELISA, but not that of PAT<br />
mRNA by RT-PCR. This may provide a basis for novel<br />
approaches to parasitic weed control by preventing<br />
interspecies trafficking of targeted enzymes.<br />
Airong Li (China) - Nutrient strategies of root<br />
hemiparasitic Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae).<br />
Both of the two sympatric root facultative hemiparasites<br />
Pedicularis rex and P. tricolor have been shown to have<br />
wide host ranges but different host preferences. Since<br />
they form symbiotic relationship with AM fungi, effects<br />
of host plants and AM fungi on growth of these<br />
hemiparasites and on phosphorus (P) acquisition were<br />
examined. Contribution of AM pathway in P acquisition<br />
was negligible in the absence of hosts but AM<br />
colonization affects host-derived P acquisition. In<br />
addition, AM colonization significantly reduced the<br />
number of haustoria (Li et al., 2012. Ann. Bot. 109:<br />
1075-1080 – see Literature below). Inhibition of<br />
haustorium induction would be a promising target for<br />
both facultative root hemiparasites as well as obligate<br />
root parasites.<br />
Kaori Yoneyama (Japan) - Seed germination stimulants<br />
for Phelipanche ramosa produced by oilseed rape.<br />
2-Phenylethyl isothiocyanate (ITC) was found to be a<br />
major germination stimulant for P. ramosa produced<br />
by oilseed rape (Brassica napus). This non-mycotrophic<br />
plant also produced orobanchyl acetate and novel<br />
strigolactones but the amounts exuded were quite low as<br />
compared with mycotrophic plants. Then, 21 ITCs were<br />
examined for their germination stimulation activities on<br />
P. ramosa and O. minor. Among them, C 4 - 12 alkyl-ITCs,<br />
and benzyl- and 2-phenylethyl-ITC but not phenyl-ITC<br />
were active P. ramosa germination stimulants. By<br />
contrast, these ITCs were totally inactive on O. minor<br />
seeds. ITCs are important germination stimulants for P.<br />
ramosa, and P. ramosa has developed a special seed<br />
germination strategy to parasitize oilseed rape.<br />
Tal Shilo (Israel) - Glyphosate inhibits the translocation<br />
of macromolecules in the parasitic association<br />
between Egyptian broomrape (Phelipanche<br />
aegyptiaca) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).<br />
To examine a hypothesis that glyphosate restricts the<br />
translocation of phloem solutes from tomato (host) to P.<br />
aegyptiaca, a cross-bred transgenic tomato line<br />
expressing resistance to glyphosate and green<br />
fluorescent protein (GFP) was used. In the control<br />
(without glyphosate) treatment, a gradual increase in<br />
tubercle fluorescence was observed, indicating<br />
accumulation of GFP. By contrast, GFP accumulation in<br />
P. aegyptiaca tubercles was inhibited following<br />
glyphosate application. These results supported the<br />
hypothesis.
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Zhi Wei Fan (China) - Induced host resistance as a<br />
control method for parasitic weeds.<br />
The efficacy of acibenzolar-S-methyl (ASM, BTH) an<br />
inducer of systemic acquired resistance (SAR), in<br />
soybean dodder (Cuscuta australis) control was<br />
examined. ASM at 100–200 mg/L significantly reduced<br />
dodder biomass without affecting growth of soybean.<br />
Accordingly induction of SAR by ASM when combined<br />
with other control methods would provide effective<br />
control strategy for soybean dodder.<br />
Management<br />
Murizio Vurro (invited talk, Italy) - Renewing the<br />
interest in biological control of parasitic weeds: use<br />
of strigolactone-degrading microbes.<br />
Extensive studies on microoroganism-derived<br />
compounds which inhibit or stimulate germination of<br />
broomrape seeds, and thus could be used as biological<br />
agents for managing broomrapes, were summarized. A<br />
novel approach to biological control of root parasitic<br />
weeds has been proposed – using microorganisms which<br />
grow along the root system of the host plant, degrade<br />
strigolactones (SLs) rapidly, and thus prevent<br />
germination of parasite seeds. Distinct differences were<br />
observed among microorganisms, treatments and SLs<br />
used.<br />
George D. Odhiambo (Kenya) – Interaction between<br />
phosphorus and desmodium on Striga hermonthica<br />
(Del.) Benth. incidence and maize yield in western<br />
Kenya.<br />
The influence of phosphorus (P) on effectiveness of two<br />
desmodium species (D. uncinatum and D. intorum) on S.<br />
hermonthica infestation and maize grain yield was<br />
investigated in western Kenya where the soil was P<br />
deficient. Application of P at 46 and 69 kg P 2 O 5 ha –1<br />
significantly reduced Striga seedbank after three<br />
continuous cropping seasons. P fertilization of<br />
desmodium induced early emergence of Striga but later,<br />
as desmodium became matured, effectively suppressed<br />
Striga emergence. Farmers in P deficient areas are<br />
advised to fertilize their field with P to achieve optimum<br />
results.<br />
Chinnusamy Chinnagounder (India) - Integrated<br />
management of witchweed (Striga asiatica L.) in<br />
early planted sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.)<br />
under red sandy loam soils of Tamil Nadu.<br />
Field experiments were carried out to evaluate herbicidal<br />
management techniques for controlling S. asiatica in<br />
sugarcane. An integrated management system including<br />
pre-emergence application of atrazine (1.0 kg ha –1 ),<br />
subsequent hand-weeding of emerged Striga shoots, and<br />
post-emergence application of 2,4-D sodium salt (5g L –1 )<br />
+ urea (20 g L –1 ) was proven to be effective in reducing<br />
S. asiatica infection in sugarcane under red sandy loam<br />
soils.<br />
Hanan Eizenberg (invited talk, Israel) - The contribution<br />
of advanced technologies for broomrape (Orobanche<br />
and Phelipanche spp.) management.<br />
As broomrapes are highly sensitive to herbicides in the<br />
underground stages, information for their spatial<br />
distribution and quantification of their developmental<br />
stages should contribute to management success. The<br />
temporal variation was quantified and broomrape<br />
parasitism was predicted by a thermal time model.<br />
Spatial variation of broomrape infestation within a field<br />
and between fields was estimated by the use of<br />
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and other<br />
advanced technologies including in-situ observation<br />
using a minirhyzotron for parasitic weed mapping, and<br />
field history data storage. This allows accurate mapping<br />
of the spatial distribution of broomrape in the field and<br />
use of these data for Site Specific Weed Management<br />
(SSWM). An example of a decision support system for<br />
rational management of Egyptian broomrape (P.<br />
aegyptiaca) was presented.<br />
Amnon Cochavi (Israel) - A thermal-time model for<br />
predicting the parasitism of Phelipanche aegyptiaca<br />
in carrot (Daucus carota).<br />
A thermal-time model for predicting the initial<br />
parasitism of P. aegyptiaca in carrot was studied.<br />
Although the initial parasitism of P. aegyptiaca in<br />
tomato, O. minor in red clover and O. cumana in<br />
sunflower could be predicted by using a linear equation,<br />
this was not applicable to P. aegyptiaca in carrot.<br />
Instead, a beta function equation could robustly predict<br />
the tubercle growth stage (1-2 mm) which is highly<br />
sensitive to the herbicide glyphosate.<br />
Evgenia Dor (Israel) - The resistance mechanism to<br />
imidazolinones herbicides of a novel tomato mutant<br />
HRT1 for broomrape management.<br />
A tomato mutant HRT1 resistant to imidazolinone<br />
herbicides was screened from an EMS treated tomato<br />
line M82. Acetolactate synthase (ALS) of HRT1 was<br />
less sensitive to the imidazolinone herbicides imazamox,<br />
imazapic and imazapyr, but equally sensitive to<br />
sulfonylurea and pyrimidinylthiobenzoate herbicides as<br />
compared to ALS from M82. HRT1 ALS genes revealed<br />
four mutations and one of them resulted in the<br />
replacement of Ala194 to Val corresponding to Ala205<br />
in the conserved region of Arabidopsis ALS. This<br />
mutation appeared to confer resistance to imidazolinone<br />
herbicides.<br />
Satbir Punia (India) - Management of Phelipanche<br />
aegyptiaca in mustard and tomato in North-West<br />
India.<br />
Extensive field trials to establish feasible management of<br />
P. aegyptiaca in mustard and tomato in North-West<br />
India were conducted. Application of different kinds<br />
of organic and inorganic fertilizers and foliar
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treatment with crop oils were not effective. Seed<br />
coating with residual herbicides delayed the<br />
emergence of P. aegyptiaca. Post-emergence<br />
application of glyphosate provided promising results.<br />
Addition of 1% (NH 4 ) 2 SO 4 to glyphosate spray<br />
enhanced its efficacy. Nitrogen fertilization (40 kg<br />
ha –1 , 3 times) could alleviate crop loss caused by the<br />
parasite.<br />
Poster presentations:<br />
Ecology and seedbank<br />
Wentao Yu (China) - Expressed sequence tag (EST) -<br />
intron length polymorphism (ILPs) as a molecular<br />
tool for the identification of Cuscuta species.<br />
Biology<br />
Yongqing Ma (China) - Induction of sunflower<br />
broomrape (Orobanche cumana) seed germination by<br />
some hybrid maize (Zea mays L.) varieties and their<br />
parents.<br />
Wei Zhang (China) - Induction of sunflower broomrape<br />
(Orobanche cumana) seeds germination by different<br />
soybean (Glycine max) varieties.<br />
Ana A. Stepowska (Poland) - Light and scanning<br />
electron microscopy studies on the Phelipanche<br />
ramosa L. Pomel development parasitizing tomato<br />
plants.<br />
Dragana M. Bozic (Serbia) - Effect of salinity on seed<br />
germination of Cuscuta campestris Yunck.<br />
Zhaohu Li (China) - Programmed cell death facilitates<br />
the dispersion of dodder.<br />
Management<br />
Gui-Lin Chen (China) - The resistance of different<br />
sunflowers to Orobanche Cumana Wallr. in seedling<br />
stage.<br />
Hanan Eizenberg (Israel) - A multidisciplinary integrated<br />
approach for alleviating broomrape damage in Israeli<br />
agriculture - an emergency national project, 2010-<br />
2013.<br />
Murali Arthanari Palanisamy (India) - Integrated<br />
Cuscuta management in legume fodder lucerne<br />
Medicago sativa) and leafy vegetable (Amaranthus<br />
viridis).<br />
Goran Malidza Serbia) - Broomrape (Orobanche<br />
cumana) control in tribenuron-tolerant sunflower.<br />
Hanan Eizenberg (Israel) - Modelling approach for the<br />
prediction of parasitism dynamics in the root<br />
holoparasite broomrapes (Orobanche and<br />
Phelipanche spp.).<br />
Germination stimulants<br />
Hyun-il Kim (Korea, Japan) - Germination stimulating<br />
activity of strigolactone mixtures.<br />
Takaya Kisugi (Japan) - Germination stimulants for root<br />
parasitic weeds produced by faba bean.<br />
Takahito Nomura (Japan) - Analysis of endogenous<br />
strigolactones using plant cell cultures.<br />
Xiaonan Xie (Japan) - Characterization of strigolactones<br />
produced by tobacco plant.<br />
Pichit Khetkam (Thailand, Japan) - Strigolactones in<br />
root exudates from rice plants.<br />
Koichi Yoneyama and Yaakov Goldwasser<br />
PRESS RELEASES<br />
Global Food Security Center Hires Manager,<br />
Receives Grants (abridged)<br />
The recently created Center for Global Food Security at<br />
Purdue University has hired a managing director and<br />
received grants totalling $10 million for work to improve<br />
crops in Africa and train the next generation of global<br />
food security experts.<br />
Gary Burniske, who had been director of Mercy Corps<br />
operations in Bogotá, Colombia, since 2006, will run<br />
daily operations of the center at Discovery Park, a<br />
complex of organizations leading large-scale<br />
collaborative research on campus engaging faculty,<br />
students and industry in state, national and global<br />
partnerships and entrepreneurial education. Burniske's<br />
appointment comes at a time when the center,<br />
established in 2011, will begin work on two major<br />
projects that have received significant funding and align<br />
with two of the center's core mission areas - research and<br />
education:<br />
A four-year, multidisciplinary research and development<br />
program on the control of the parasitic Striga weed,<br />
which infests sorghum and other crops in Africa,<br />
damaging or destroying them. The center received a $5<br />
million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation<br />
to further research and establish programs for a<br />
sustainable Striga control and institutional development<br />
effort in the African nations of Tanzania and Ethiopia.<br />
The Striga research will build on the work of Gebisa<br />
Ejeta, the center's director and Distinguished Professor<br />
of Agronomy who received the World Food Prize in<br />
2009 for developing sorghum varieties resistant to<br />
drought and Striga in his native Africa, where sorghum<br />
is a major crop. The new effort will focus on furthering<br />
knowledge of biological interactions between Striga and<br />
sorghum through research in chemistry, molecular<br />
genetics and crop improvement.<br />
‘In the previous research, we focused on controlling<br />
Striga through manipulation of resistance genes in the<br />
host plant,’ Ejeta said. ‘Now we will expand the research<br />
to explore the role of virulence genes in the pathogen to
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avoid catastrophic breakdown of resistance.’ Shorterterm<br />
solutions will involve establishing sustainable<br />
Striga control programs by adapting previously piloted<br />
Striga management technologies to the variety of<br />
environments and livelihoods of small-scale farmers in<br />
highly infested regions of Ethiopia and Tanzania.<br />
Ejeta will direct the project, which will include Tesfaye<br />
Mengiste, a Purdue professor of botany and plant<br />
pathology, and Harro Bouwmeester, who heads the<br />
Laboratory of Plant Physiology at Wageningen<br />
University in the Netherlands. They will collaborate with<br />
the agriculture ministries in Ethiopia and Tanzania.<br />
Purdue University,<br />
20 Feb 2012.<br />
Mistletoe was controversial choice for Oklahoma<br />
flower<br />
For 114 years, Oklahoma’s state flower was the<br />
mistletoe. But it was always a controversial choice. In<br />
February 1893, while the 2nd Territorial Legislature met<br />
in Guthrie, Rep. John A. Wimberly introduced the bill to<br />
designate mistletoe as the official floral emblem. The<br />
Women’s Congress of the Columbian World Exposition<br />
held in Chicago in 1893 had proposed that the states<br />
should consider selecting floral emblems to represent<br />
their state at the exposition. While Oklahoma was not a<br />
state, the Oklahoma Pavilion at the exposition, also<br />
known as the Chicago World’s Fair, promoted the<br />
territory to exposition visitors. Wimberly was the<br />
youngest member of the House of Representatives and it<br />
was he who, according to The Oklahoman on April 19,<br />
1925, suggested ‘one of the most interesting traditions.’<br />
‘One day the question of the state flower was brought<br />
up. Everything from daisies to American Beauty roses<br />
was suggested. A representative from the southern part<br />
of the Territory wanted forget-me-nots. ‘That’s a good<br />
name for a state flower, and it’s a pretty flower too,’ he<br />
said. ‘Mr. Wimberly remembered how hard the previous<br />
winter had been and that when settlers had died and there<br />
were no flowers to put on the graves: ‘the only thing in<br />
the whole country with a bit of color was mistletoe.’ So<br />
it was adopted as the new territory’s floral emblem.<br />
‘Years later when Oklahoma became a state, members of<br />
the constitutional convention carried the old territorial<br />
flower over into statehood, thus confirming what has<br />
since become one of Oklahoma’s oldest traditions.’<br />
Every few years after it seemed someone would propose<br />
a change, it would be discussed and mistletoe would<br />
remain. The sweet pea, yucca and the cowboy rose (not a<br />
rose but a part of the mallow family), were among those<br />
proposed, but probably the most unusual was the alfalfa<br />
blossom.<br />
Before we were even a state, in 1906, William H.<br />
Murray stated his preference for alfalfa in a letter to the<br />
editor of The Oklahoman: ‘Who, indeed, would desire to<br />
adopt for a state flower, a parasite? Let greater<br />
Oklahoma be known as the ‘Alfalfa State.’ In an<br />
editorial in The Oklahoman for June 17, 1912, the<br />
newspaper came out in support of alfalfa as the state<br />
flower: ‘Now that Oklahoma has become known as the<br />
marvelous alfalfa state, why not use the alfalfa blossom<br />
as the state flower?’ ‘The alfalfa blossoms are pretty;<br />
they enrich the scenery, added to the artistic part, alfalfa,<br />
is the mortgage lifter of Oklahoma. It is the crop which<br />
brings riches to the state; it is a crop which means more<br />
to the future than any other crop.’ ‘Alfalfa blossom —<br />
the state flower. It should be adopted’<br />
The hardy little mistletoe stood firm from 1890 until<br />
2004 when Gov. Brad Henry signed a bill into law<br />
making the Oklahoma Rose our official state flower. The<br />
mistletoe remains the state floral emblem.<br />
Mary Philips for The Archivist<br />
June 28, 2012<br />
Global warming to spur invasive Australian<br />
‘sleeper’ weeds<br />
Global warming may shift the range of invasive weeds in<br />
Australia by hundreds of miles and awaken so-called<br />
‘sleeper weeds,’ according to scientists with the<br />
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research<br />
Organization (CSIRO). Plant experts warned at the end<br />
of March warned that resource managers need to be<br />
prepared for big changes in the coming decades.<br />
Invasive weeds already cost Australia more than $4<br />
billion (Australian) per year either in control of lost<br />
production, and, like elsewhere, displace native habitat<br />
and species.<br />
At a recent conference in Perth, CSIRO scientist Dr.<br />
John Scott, said, those cost estimates are only based on<br />
the damage caused by weeds known to be active in<br />
Australia. ‘Out there, throughout the nation, are many<br />
weed species lying low but with the potential to take off<br />
and add to the economic and social burden of weed<br />
control,’ Dr Scott said. ‘One critical unknown is what<br />
these lurking weeds will do under climate change. Will<br />
their distributions change? Will they spread north or<br />
south, east or west, and will these movements change<br />
them into full-blown pest species?’<br />
A recent CSIRO report for the Australian Government’s<br />
Land and Water Australia looked at what effects climate<br />
changes anticipated for 2030 and 2070 might have on the<br />
distribution of 41 weeds that pose a threat to agriculture<br />
(‘sleeper’ species) and the natural environment (‘alert’
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species). ‘We found that climate change will cause most<br />
of these weeds to shift south, with wet tropical species<br />
making the greatest move – over 1,000 kilometers,’ Scott<br />
said. ‘The regions most at threat from alert and sleeper<br />
weeds, both under the current climate and under climate<br />
change, are south east Australia, followed by the south<br />
west.’<br />
Karroo thorn (Acacia karroo), rosewood (Tipuana tipu)<br />
and kochia (Bassia scoparia) were found to pose the<br />
greatest threat under climate change while white<br />
weeping broom (Retama raetam) and fringed dodder<br />
(Cuscuta suaveolens) were predicted to have the highest<br />
risk of establishing in new areas.<br />
‘The predicted move south by both native and introduced<br />
plants would produce a ‘vacuum’ in northern Australia<br />
so, to prevent lurking species from invading, a new list<br />
of alert and sleeper weeds for this region needs to be<br />
developed,’ Dr Scott said. The report also found that<br />
while the area currently infested by the most widespread<br />
weeds will decrease under climate change, the area of<br />
high risk would still be large.<br />
Bob Berwyn for Summit County Citizens Voice<br />
12 May 2012<br />
CONGRATULATIONS<br />
Dr Maurizio Vurro. Congratulations to Maurizio Vurro<br />
and Maria Antonietta Novielli on their recent marriage in<br />
Bari, Puglia on March 21 st , 2012. With best wishes from<br />
us all.<br />
Dr Bikash Ray. Congratulations to Dr Bikash Ray on<br />
his promotion to the Pulses and Oilseeds Research<br />
Station, Berhampore, West Bengal India, where he will<br />
be exploring the availability of resistance to Orobanche<br />
aegyptiaca in rapeseed and mustard.<br />
GENERAL WEB SITES<br />
For individual web-site papers and reports see<br />
LITERATURE<br />
For information on the International Parasitic Plant<br />
Society, current issue of Haustorium, etc. see:<br />
http://www.parasiticplants.org/<br />
For past and current issues of Haustorium see also:<br />
http://www.odu.edu/~lmusselm/haustorium/index.sht<br />
ml<br />
For the ODU parasitic plant site see:<br />
http://www.odu.edu/~lmusselm/plant/parasitic/index.<br />
php<br />
For Dan Nickrent’s ‘The Parasitic Plant Connection’ see:<br />
http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/<br />
For the Parasitic Plant Genome Project (PPGP) see:<br />
http://ppgp.huck.psu.edu/<br />
For information on the EU COST 849 Project (now<br />
completed) and reports of its meetings see:<br />
http://cost849.ba.cnr.it/<br />
For information on the EWRS Working Group ‘Parasitic<br />
weeds’ see: http://www.ewrs.org/parasitic_weeds.asp<br />
For a description and other information about the<br />
Desmodium technique for Striga suppression, see:<br />
http://www.push-pull.net/<br />
For The Mistletoe Center (including a comprehensive<br />
Annotated Bibliography on mistletoes, up to 1995?)<br />
see: http://www.rmrs.nau.edu/mistletoe/<br />
For the work of Forest Products Commission (FPC) on<br />
sandalwood, see: http://www.fpc.wa.gov.au (Search<br />
Santalum)<br />
For past and current issues of the Sandalwood Research<br />
Newsletter, see:<br />
http://www.jcu.edu.au/mbil/srn/index.html<br />
For information on the work of the African Agricultural<br />
Technology Foundation (AATF) on Striga control in<br />
Kenya, including periodical ‘Strides in Striga<br />
Management’ newsletters, see: http://www.aatfafrica.org/<br />
FORTHCOMING MEETING<br />
12 th World Congress on Parasitic Plants (WCPP) will<br />
be held on Monday July 15 to Friday July 19, 2013 in<br />
Sheffield, UK. The venue will be the Edge Conference<br />
facility at the University of Sheffield. Further details will<br />
be provided via the conference website which will be<br />
available from mid October 2012. An e-mail will be<br />
sent to everyone who receives Haustorium once the<br />
website is available.<br />
THANKS<br />
As editors of Haustorium, Harro Bouwmeester and Chris<br />
Parker wish to thank Jim Westwood for his stalwart<br />
help, support and encouragement in the production of<br />
this newsletter over the past many years, particularly<br />
helping Chris with literature items that were beyond his<br />
comprehension. We may yet trouble him further but will<br />
try to leave him in peace.
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LITERATURE<br />
* indicates web-site reference only<br />
Abad Domínguez, A.B., Torres Martínez, G., Montealegre<br />
Lara, A.L. and Barrera, O. 2005. (Detection of seeds of<br />
quarantined weed species in Mexico in observance of<br />
NOM-043-FITO-1999.) (in Spanish) XVII Congreso de<br />
la Asociación Latinoamericana de Malezas (ALAM) I<br />
Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencia de las Malezas, IV<br />
Congreso Nacional de Ciencia de Malezas, Matanzas,<br />
Cuba, 8 al 11 de noviembre del 2005: 359-364.<br />
[Describing the official Mexican standard ‘Specifications<br />
to prevent the introduction of quarantined weed species<br />
in Mexico’ listing 64 species in 21 families, including<br />
Orobanchaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Convolvulaceae.]<br />
Abella, S.R., Prengaman, K.A., Embrey, T.M., Schmid,<br />
S.M., Newton, A.C. and Merkler, D.J. 2012. A<br />
hierarchical analysis of vegetation on a Mojave Desert<br />
landscape, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 78: 135-<br />
143. [Noting the use of Krameria grayi as an ecological<br />
indicator.]<br />
Adaramoye, O., Amanlou, M., Habibi-Rezaei, M., Pasalar,<br />
P. and Moosavi-Movahedi, A. 2012. Methanolic extract<br />
of African mistletoe (Viscum album) improves<br />
carbohydrate metabolism and hyperlipidemia in<br />
streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Asian Pacific<br />
Journal of Tropical Medicine 5(6): 427-433. [Extract of<br />
‘V. album’ (in Turkey?) has anti-diabetic and antihyperlipidemic<br />
effects in STZ-diabetic rats.]<br />
Adnan Amin and Khan, M.A. 2011. In vitro bactericidal and<br />
bacteriostatic potential of ingredients of traditional<br />
medicine obtained from Kacha area (River Indus) district<br />
D.I. Khan, KPK, against human bacterial pathogens.<br />
Pakistan Journal of Botany 43(5): 2613-2617. [Ximenia<br />
americana among 5 species showing antimicrobial<br />
activity.]<br />
Aichner, M., Oberauner, L., Liebminger, S., Fürnkranz, M.<br />
and Berg, G. 2012. Volatile organic compounds of plantassociated<br />
bacteria to reduce microbial contamination on<br />
clean room textile. In: Pertot, I., Elad, Y., Gessler, C.<br />
and Cini, A. (eds) IOBC/WPRS Bulletin 78: 381-384.<br />
[Volatile organic compounds from natural antagonistic<br />
endophytes from mistletoe (presumably Viscum album)<br />
inhibited the growth of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.]<br />
Akhilesh Kumar, Pandey, V.C. and Tewari, D.D. 2012.<br />
Documentation and determination of consensus about<br />
phytotherapeutic veterinary practices among the Tharu<br />
tribal community of Uttar Pradesh, India. Tropical<br />
Animal Health and Production 44(4): 863-872.<br />
[Recording ‘great agreement among informants’ for the<br />
use of Cuscuta reflexa.]<br />
Alder, A., Jamil, M., Marzorati, M., Bruno, M., Vermathen,<br />
M., Bigler, P., Ghisla, S., Bouwmeester, H., Beyer, P.<br />
and Al-Babili, S. 2012. The path from β-carotene to<br />
carlactone, a strigolactone-like plant hormone. Science<br />
(Washington) 335(6074): 1348-1351. [A breakthrough<br />
paper on the elucidation of the strigolactone biosynthetic<br />
pathway. The catalytic function of DWARF27 was<br />
determined to be the isomerisation of trans to cis-ßcarotene.<br />
The latter serves as substrate for CCD7 and the<br />
resulting apocarotenoid as substrate for CCD8. This 3-<br />
step pathway results in the formation of the highly<br />
surprising compound carlactone that already has the D-<br />
ring that is so characteristic for strigolactones and<br />
stimulates the germination of Striga and<br />
Orobanche/Phelipanche.]<br />
Ali, I.H.H. and El-Yazal, M.A. 2011. Efficacy of glyphosate<br />
herbicide against dodder and its impact on some<br />
biochemical parameters on host plant Nerium oleander<br />
L. and a survey of host range of some ornamentals at<br />
Fayoum. Bulletin of Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo<br />
University 62(4): 494-502. [Recording C. campestris on<br />
11 host species in Egypt and noting its selective control<br />
on oleander by glyphosate at 200 and 400 ppm.]<br />
Aly, R. 2012. Advanced technologies for parasitic weed<br />
control. Weed Science 60(2): 290-294. [Reviewing the<br />
need for alternative biotechnology-methods and<br />
describing the generation of transgenic tobacco plants<br />
expressing a cecropin peptide (sarcotoxin IA), under the<br />
control of the inducible HMG2 promoter and showing<br />
enhanced resistance to Phelipanche aegyptiaca. (see also<br />
Haustorium 59 pp 2-3).]<br />
Almehdar, H., Abdallah, H.M., Osman, A.M.M. and Abdel-<br />
Sattar, E.A. 2012. In vitro cytotoxic screening of<br />
selected Saudi medicinal plants. Journal of Natural<br />
Medicines 66(2): 406-412. [In studies with human breast<br />
cancer (MCF7), hepatocellular carcinoma (HEPG2), and<br />
cervix cancer (HELA) cells, ‘interesting cytotoxic<br />
activity’ was observed for extracts of Phragmanthera<br />
austroarabica.]<br />
Amico, G.C., Vidal-Russell, R., García, M.A., and Nickrent<br />
D.L. 2012. Evolutionary history of the South American<br />
mistletoe Tripodanthus (Loranthaceae) using nuclear and<br />
chloroplast markers. Systematic. Botany 37: 218-225.<br />
[Results from a combined analysis of ITS and plastid<br />
genes showed the Tripodanthus flagellaris clade<br />
(including T. belmirensis) as sister to T. acutifolius<br />
which was composed of eastern and Andean clades.]<br />
Amri, M., Abbes, Z., Youssef, S.B., Bouhadida, M., Salah,<br />
H.B. and Kharrat, M. 2012. Detection of the parasitic<br />
plant, Orobanche cumana on sunflower (Helianthus<br />
annuus L.) in Tunisia. African Journal of Biotechnology<br />
11(18): 4163-4167. [Recording the first occurrence of O.<br />
cumana on sunflower in Tunisia and discussing the need<br />
for quarantine and control measures to reduce its<br />
spread.]<br />
Atera, E.A., Itoh, K., Azuma, T. and Ishii, T. 2012. Farmers'<br />
perspectives on the biotic constraint of Striga<br />
hermonthica and its control in western Kenya. Weed<br />
Biology and Management, 12: 53–62. [Striga<br />
hermonthica is regarded as a major constraint to maize,<br />
sorghum, and finger millet production and is increasing<br />
in the region. Local control measures include handpulling,<br />
crop rotation, and intercropping, but are not
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widely adopted as there is no guarantee of a direct payoff<br />
in increased crop yield.]<br />
Atera, E.A., Itoh, K., Azuma, T. Ishii, T. 2012. Response of<br />
NERICA rice to Striga hermonthica infections in<br />
western Kenya. International Journal of Agriculture and<br />
Biology 14(2): 271-275. [Confirming rice varieties<br />
NERICA 1 and NERICA 10 are resistant to S.<br />
hermonthica, while NERICA 4 is highly susceptible.<br />
Yield loss ranged between 33 and 90%.]<br />
Atera, E.A., Itoh, K., Azuma, T. Ishii, T. 2012. Farmers'<br />
perception and constraints to the adoption of weed<br />
control options: the case of Striga asiatica in Malawi.<br />
Journal of Agricultural Science (Toronto) 4(5): 41-50.<br />
[Farmers attribute increasing infestation of maize by<br />
Sriga asiatica in central Malawi to insufficient funds to<br />
purchase inputs, low soil fertility and lack of grazing<br />
animals. Control options are not implemented because<br />
they are not trusted.]<br />
Ayesha Mateen, Suresh, P.V.K. and Parwez Ahmed. 2011.<br />
Evaluation of antibacterial activity of Cuscuta reflexa<br />
and Abutilon indicum. International Journal of Pharma<br />
and Bio Sciences 2(4): B-355-B-361. [Confirming the<br />
antimicrobial activity of ethanol extracts of C. reflexa<br />
against a range of bacteria.]<br />
Ayupbek, A., Ziyavitdinov, J.F., Ishimov, U.J., Sagdiev,<br />
N.Z., Kuznetsova, N.N., Hu KeLin and Aisa, H.A. 2012.<br />
Phenylethanoid glycosides from Cistanche tubulosa.<br />
Chemistry of Natural Compounds 47(6): 985-987.<br />
Babalola, O.O. 2010. Exogenous cellulase contributes to<br />
mycoherbicidal activity of Fusarium arthrosporioides on<br />
Orobanche aegyptiaca. International Journal of<br />
Agronomy, 2010: Article ID 963259, 4 pp. [Addition of<br />
cellulose increases activity of F. arthrosporioides<br />
against O. aegyptiaca without causing damage to tomato<br />
roots.]<br />
Badu-Apraku, B. and Oyekunle, M. 2012. Genetic analysis<br />
of grain yield and other traits of extra-early yellow maize<br />
inbreds and hybrid performance under contrasting<br />
environments. Field Crops Research 129: 99-110. [The<br />
available extra-early maize inbred lines are not only<br />
drought escaping but also possess genes for drought<br />
tolerance. TZEEI 79 × TZEEI 63 was the best extraearly<br />
hybrid under infestation by Striga hermonthica.]<br />
Bandaranayake, P.C.G., Tomilov, A., Tomilova, N.B., Ngo,<br />
Q.A., Wickett, N., de Pamphilis, C.W. and Yoder, J.I.<br />
2012. The TvPirin gene is necessary for haustorium<br />
development in the parasitic plant Triphysaria<br />
versicolor. Plant Physiology 158(2): 1046-1053.<br />
[Showing that TvPirin homologs are present in most<br />
flowering plants, and are not parasite-specific but are<br />
associated with the expression of a number of genes,<br />
some of which are involved in haustorium development.]<br />
Barbu, C. 2010. Silver fir stands infected by mistletoe<br />
(Viscum album ssp. abietis) dynamics in the context of<br />
climate change. Lucrări Sţiinţifice, Universitatea de<br />
Sţiintȩ Agricole Şi Medicină Veterinară "Ion Ionescu de<br />
la Brad" Iaşi, Seria Horticultură 53(1): 609-614. [A<br />
modelling study of the effects of climate change on V.<br />
album infestation of silver fir in Romania.]<br />
Barea, L.P. 2012. Habitat influences on nest-site selection<br />
by the Painted Honeyeater (Grantiella picta): do food<br />
resources matter? Emu - Austral Ornithology 112(1): 39-<br />
45. [Showing that nest-site selection by the Painted<br />
Honeyeaters was largely explained by abundance and<br />
proximity of (unspecified) mistletoe clumps and<br />
discussing the need to conserve mistletoes in the interest<br />
of conserving this declining bird species.]<br />
Barrett, T.M., Latta, G., Hennon, P.E., Eskelson, B.N.I. and<br />
Temesgen, H. 2012. Host-parasite distributions under<br />
changing climate: Tsuga heterophylla and Arceuthobium<br />
tsugense in Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research<br />
42(4): 642-656. [Analysis of 1549 forested plots within a<br />
14.5 million ha region of southeast Alaska suggest that<br />
climate currently limits the range of A. tsugense on<br />
Tsuga heterophylla and that certain models for climate<br />
change suggest up to 750% increase in distribution over<br />
the next century.]<br />
Beavan, S.D. and Heckford, R.J. 2012. Discovery of the<br />
larva of Gynnidomorpha permixtana ([Denis &<br />
Schiffermüller], 1775) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in the<br />
British Isles and a consideration of the species'<br />
distribution there. Entomologist's Gazette 63(2): 69-83.<br />
[Larvae of G. permixtana found feeding in seed-capsules<br />
of Odontites vernus and Rhinanthus minor.]<br />
Berg, G., Hartenberger, K., Liebminger, S., Zachow, C.,<br />
Pertot, I., Elad, Y., Gessler, C. and Cini, A. 2012.<br />
Antagonistic endophytes from mistletoes as bio-resource<br />
to control plant as well as clean room pathogens.<br />
IOBC/WPRS Bulletin 78: 29-32. [Endophytes from<br />
Viscum album show activity against a range of bacteria<br />
and fungi.]<br />
Blick, R.A.J., Burns, K. and Moles, A.T. 2012. Predicting<br />
network topology of mistletoe-host interactions: do<br />
mistletoes really mimic their hosts? Oikos 121(5): 761-<br />
771. [Concluding that Australian mistletoes do not<br />
mimic their hosts.]<br />
Borokini, T.I. and Omotayo, F.O. 2012. Phytochemical and<br />
ethnobotanical study of some selected medicinal plants<br />
from Nigeria. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research 6(7):<br />
1106-1118. [Identifying components in a range of plants,<br />
including Tapinanthus globiferus which tend to support<br />
their traditional medicinal uses.]<br />
Braby, M.F. 2012. New larval food plants and biological<br />
notes for some butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)<br />
from eastern Australia. Australian Entomologist 39(2):<br />
65-68. [Pieris rapae recorded for the first time on<br />
Lysiana spathulata (Loranthaceae).]<br />
Bracci, A., Amat, A.G., Maione, F., Cicala, C., Mascolo, N.<br />
and de Feo, V. 2012. Diuretic activity of Lophophytum<br />
leandri. Natural Product Communications 7(1): 33-34.<br />
[Confirming the diuretic activity of extracts of L. leandri<br />
(Balanophoraceae), used traditionally in Argentina.]<br />
Brokamp, G., Dostert, N., Cáceres-H, F. and Weigend, M.<br />
2012. Parasitism and haustorium anatomy of Krameria<br />
lappacea (Dombey) Burdet & B.B. Simpson
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(Krameriaceae), an endangered medicinal plant from the<br />
Andean deserts. Journal of Arid Environments 83: 94-<br />
100. [K. lappacea is an endangered, hemiparasitic,<br />
medicinal plant from the semi-deserts of Andean South<br />
America, and is being overexploited. The work in Peru<br />
confirms that it has a very wide host range. The need for<br />
conservation strategies and adequate management are<br />
stressed.]<br />
Brown, A., Eatt, J., Done, C., Raymond, D. and Pattison, M.<br />
2011. Indian sandalwood. Perfumer & Flavorist 36(22):<br />
26-34. [A study of 90 Santalum album trees in Western<br />
Australia show good correlations between stem<br />
diameter, merchantable mass yield and heartwood yield.<br />
Together with observed oil yield from heartwood, the<br />
results contribute to the development of a predictive<br />
model.]<br />
Burlov, V. 2010. Breeding of sunflower resistant to new<br />
races of broomrape (Orobanche cumana Wallr.). Helia<br />
33(53): 165-172. [Noting the occurrence of a virulent<br />
form of O. cumana in the Black Sea region since 2004,<br />
infesting sunflower with resistance to race E. But noting<br />
the development of maternal lines of sunflower hybrids<br />
whose stability to the new race is controlled by a single<br />
dominant gene, Or 6 .]<br />
Campagna, G. and Rapparini, G. 2011. (Prevention and<br />
control of dodder.) (in Italian) Informatore Agrario<br />
67(45): 62-65. [A brief review of potential control<br />
methods including crop rotation, use of uncontaminated<br />
seed and irrigation water, and the herbicides<br />
pendimethalin, chhlorpropham, ethofumesate and<br />
propyzamide.]<br />
Castillejo, M.Á., Fernández-Aparicio, M. and Rubiales, D.<br />
2012. Proteomic analysis by two-dimensional<br />
differential in gel electrophoresis (2D DIGE) of the early<br />
response of Pisum sativum to Orobanche crenata.<br />
Journal of Experimental Botany 63(1): 107-119, [Results<br />
suggest different defence responses to O. crenata in<br />
susceptible and more resistant pea varieties, apparently<br />
associated with certain proteins with protease activity.]<br />
Chandrakasan, L. and Neelamegam, R. 2011. GC-MS<br />
analysis of Loranthus longiflorus Desr. (a hemi-parasite)<br />
bark harvested from two host trees. Journal of Pharmacy<br />
Research 4(9): 3072-3074. [Extracts from the bark of L<br />
longiflorus (= Dendrophthoe falcata) growing on<br />
Casuarina equisetifolia showed anti-microbial and anticancer<br />
properties, while the same species growing on<br />
Ficus religiosa contained different components, without<br />
useful activity.]<br />
Chandrakasan, L. and Neelamegam, R. 2011. In vitro<br />
studies on antioxidants and free radical scavenging<br />
activities in the extracts of Loranthus longiflorus Desr.<br />
bark samples obtained from two host trees. Journal of<br />
Phytology 3(12): 22-30. [Showing some small<br />
differences in the antioxidant constituents and free<br />
radical scavenging activities of extracts from L.<br />
longiflorus (= Dendrophthoe falcata) growing on the<br />
hosts Casuarina equisetifolia and Ficus religiosa.]<br />
Chang FuYe, Li Yun and Wan JiFeng. 2012. (Function of<br />
Cistanche deserticola Y. C. Ma anti-aging, regimen and<br />
facial make-up.) (in Chinese) 2012. Chinese Archives of<br />
Traditional Chinese Medicine 30(3): 472-473. [‘It is<br />
believed that C. deserticola invigorates the kidney the<br />
function to achieve anti-aging, regimen and facial makeup<br />
purposes.’ (sic)]<br />
Chen, C.Q., Han, S., Gao, J. and Yang, L.N. 2012. First<br />
report of ginseng (Panax ginseng) as a natural host of<br />
dodder (Cuscuta japonica) in China. Plant Disease<br />
96(2): 297. [Reporting poor growth, chlorosis, wilting,<br />
and eventual death in a field of ginseng infested by C.<br />
japonica in Jilin Province, China.]<br />
Chen JaoShien and Hsiao ShuChuan. 2011. Study on seed<br />
morphogenesis of Orobanchaceae in Taiwan. Taiwania<br />
56(4): 267-278. [Embryos of Aeginetia indica were of<br />
solanad type, while in Boschniakia himalaica and<br />
Orobanche caerulescens they were of onagrad type. All<br />
seeds consisted of embryo, endosperm and testa.]<br />
Chiou WenFei, Shen ChienChang and Lin LieChwen. 2011.<br />
Anti-inflammatory principles from Balanophora<br />
laxiflora. Journal of Food and Drug Analysis 19(4): 502-<br />
508. [Concluding that isolariciresinol modulates the<br />
production of inflammatory mediators through the<br />
attenuation of NF-κB transcription signalling.]<br />
Cursino, L.M.C., Santos, I., Mariúba, L.A.M., Jeffreys,<br />
M.F., Lima, N.M., Oliveira, J.L., Orlandi, P.P., Nunez,<br />
C.V. and Rastrelli, L. 2011. Antibacterial activity of<br />
Minquartia guianensis extracts and phytochemical<br />
evaluation. Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture<br />
23(6): 505-510. [Confirming activity of M. guianensis<br />
against several bacteria and identifying 4 triterpenes -<br />
lupeol, taraxerol, lupenona and squalene.]<br />
Czarnecka, J. 2011. The role of linear structures in<br />
agricultural landscape in the maintenance of xerothermic<br />
species. Acta Agrobotanica 64(4): 151-158. [Including<br />
information on Melampyrum arvense.]<br />
Daryaei, M.G. and Moghadam, E.S. 2012. Effects of<br />
mistletoe (Viscum album L.) on leaves and nutrients<br />
content of some host trees in hyrcanian forests (Iran).<br />
International Journal of Agriculture: Research and<br />
Review 2(3): 85-90. [Studies on V. album-infested<br />
hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) and alder (Alnus glutinosa)<br />
showed reduction of area and weight of host leaves, and<br />
lowered N, but increased K, Mn and Zn.]<br />
de Camargo, N. F., Cruz, R.M.S., Ribeiro, J. F. and Vieira,<br />
E.M. 2011. (Frugivory and potential seed dispersal by<br />
the marsupial Gracilinanus agilis (Didelphidae:<br />
Didelphimorphia) in areas of Cerrado in central Brazil.)<br />
(in Portuguese) Acta Botanica Brasilica 25(3): 646-656.<br />
[Phoradendron perrottetii among the species eaten by G.<br />
agilis. Germination was not affected by passage through<br />
the gut.]<br />
de Wet, H., Nzama, V.N. and van Vuuren, S.F. 2012.<br />
Medicinal plants used for the treatment of sexually<br />
transmitted infections by lay people in northern<br />
Maputaland, Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa.<br />
South African Journal of Botany 78: 12-20. [Sarcophyte
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sanguinea (Balanophoraceae) among 33 species used to<br />
treat sexually transmitted disease.]<br />
Delaux, P.M., Xie, X., Timme, R.E., Puech-Pages, V.,<br />
Dunand, C., Lecompte, E., Delwiche, C.F., Yoneyama,<br />
K., Bécard, G., Séjalon-Delmas, N. 2012 Origin of<br />
strigolactones in the green lineage. New Phytologist<br />
195(4): 857-871. [The authors show that strigolactones<br />
and corresponding genes are present in primitive land<br />
plants and the Charales, freshwater algae, and control<br />
rhizoid elongation in the primitive plants. They suggest<br />
that the original biological function of strigolactones is<br />
not to facilitate mycorrhizal colonisation but plant<br />
development.]<br />
Disadee, W. Mahidol, C., Sahakitpichan, P., Sitthimonchai,<br />
S., Ruchirawat, S. and Kanchanapoom, T. 2012.<br />
Unprecedented furan-2-carbonyl C-glycosides and<br />
phenolic diglycosides from Scleropyrum pentandrum.<br />
Phytochemistry 74: 115-122. [Five new copmpounds<br />
from S. pentandrum (Santalaceae) identified and<br />
evaluated for their radical scavenging activities using<br />
both DPPH and ORAC assays.]<br />
Doehmer, J. and Eisenbraun, J. 2012. Assessment of extracts<br />
from mistletoe (Viscum album) for herb-drug interaction<br />
by inhibition and induction of cytochrome P450<br />
activities. Phytotherapy Research 26(1): 11-17. [Extracts<br />
of V. album growing on hosts ash, fir and pine differed<br />
in their cytotoxic effects on liver cells. None showed<br />
potential for herb-drug interactions by interference with<br />
cytochrome P450.]<br />
Dong LiNa, Li DeZhu and Wang Hong. 2011. (Species<br />
delimitation of Pterygiella (Orobanchaceae), a genus<br />
endemic to southwestern China on the basis of<br />
morphometric and molecular analyses.) (in Chinese)<br />
Plant Diversity and Resources 33(6): 581-594. [Revising<br />
the genus Pterygiella to include only three species, P.<br />
nigrescens, P. duclouxii, and P. cylindrica. P.<br />
suffruticosa is merged into P. cylindrica as a variety.]<br />
Dongo, A., Leflon, M., Simier, P. and Delavault, P. 2012.<br />
Development of a high-throughput real-time quantitative<br />
PCR method to detect and quantify contaminating seeds<br />
of Phelipanche ramosa and Orobanche cumana in crop<br />
seed lots. Weed Research (Oxford) 52(1): 34-41. [The<br />
PCR (TaqMan) diagnostic method allowed rapid, highthroughput<br />
and accurate assessment of contamination of<br />
rapeseed and sunflower seeds with P. ramosa or O.<br />
cumana respectively, to the level of seeds per kg crop<br />
seed.]<br />
Duda-Chodak, A., Tarko, T. and Rus, M. 2011. Antioxidant<br />
activity and total polyphenol content of selected herbal<br />
medicinal products used in Poland. Herba Polonica<br />
57(1): 48-61. [Viscum album among plant extracts<br />
studied.]<br />
Eizenberg, H., Aly, R. and Cohen, Y. 2012. Technologies<br />
for smart chemical control of broomrape (Orobanche<br />
spp. and Phelipanche spp.). Weed Science 60(2): 316-<br />
323. [Discussing a range of advanced techniques for<br />
optimising the control of Orobanche aegyptiaca in<br />
tomato. (see also Haustorium 59 pp 2-3).]<br />
Encheva, J. and Shindrova, P. 2011. Developing mutant<br />
sunflower lines (Helianthus annuus L.) through induced<br />
mutagenesis and study of their combining ability. Helia<br />
34(54): 107-122. [Describing the use of ultrasound as a<br />
means of creating mutant lines of potential value in<br />
breeding for resistance to Orobanche cumana.]<br />
Ephrath, J.E., Herschenhorn, J., Achardi, G., Bringer, S. and<br />
Eizenberg, H. 2012. Use of logistic equation for<br />
detection of the initial parasitism phase of Egyptian<br />
broomrape (Phelipanche aegyptiaca) in tomato. Weed<br />
Science 60(1): 57-63. [From phytotron and greenhouse<br />
experiments at a range of temperatures, it was<br />
established that attachment of P. aegyptiaca on tomato<br />
began at 200 growing degree days (GDD) and maximum<br />
attachment was at 800 GDD.]<br />
Estep, M.C., Gowda, B.S., Huang, K., Timko, M.P. and<br />
Bennetzen, J.L. 2012. Genomic characterization for<br />
parasitic weeds of the genus Striga by sample sequence<br />
analysis. Plant Genome, 5(1): 30-41. [[Genomics<br />
analysis of Striga spp. shows that their DNA contains<br />
repetitive elements. The genome size varied from 615<br />
Mb in S. asiatica to almost 2460 Mb in S. forbesii,<br />
suggesting a ploidy series. Phylogenetic analysis of<br />
chloroplast loci suggest that S. gesnerioides is more<br />
closely related to the grass-parasitising Striga spp. than<br />
expected.]<br />
Fadini, R.F. and Lima, A.P. 2012. Fire and host abundance<br />
as determinants of the distribution of three congener and<br />
sympatric mistletoes in an Amazonian savanna.<br />
Biotropica 44(1): 27-34. [Prevalence of the relatively<br />
host-specific P. plagiophyllus was negatively related to<br />
fire frequency, while for the more generalist P.<br />
biternatus and P. eucalyptifolius it was not.]<br />
Feldman, T.S., Morsy, M.R. and Roossinck, M.J. 2012. Are<br />
communities of microbial symbionts more diverse than<br />
communities of macrobial hosts? Fungal Biology<br />
116(4): 465-477. [Studies on Cuscuta cuspidata and its<br />
host Ambrosia psilostachya in grassland in Oklahoma,<br />
USA, revealed at least 25 fungal taxa, and 10% of these<br />
with detectable viruses. Several mycovirus types were<br />
shared among fungal taxa, indicating that mycoviruses<br />
may be less specialized than previously thought.]<br />
Fernández-Aparicio, M., Flores, F. and Rubiales, D. 2012.<br />
Escape and true resistance to crenate broomrape<br />
(Orobanche crenata Forsk.) in grass pea (Lathyrus<br />
sativus L.) germplasm. Field Crops Research 125(1): 92-<br />
97. [Resistance to O. crenata in L. sativus is scarce and<br />
influenced by environmental conditions but some useful<br />
genetic variation detected. Early and late varieties tend<br />
to escape.]<br />
Fernández-Aparicio, M. and Rubiales, D. 2012. Differential<br />
response of pea (Pisum sativum) to Orobanche crenata,<br />
Orobanche foetida and Phelipanche aegyptiaca. Crop<br />
Protection 31(1): 27-30. [Pea stimulates high<br />
germination of O. foetida and P. aegyptiaca but resists<br />
infection, suggesting it could be a useful trap crop for O.<br />
foetida and P. aegyptiaca-infested land.]
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Fernández-Aparicio, M., Westwood, J.H. and Rubiales, D.<br />
2011. Agronomic, breeding, and biotechnological<br />
approaches to parasitic plant management through<br />
manipulation of germination stimulant levels in<br />
agricultural soils. Botany 89(12): 813-826. [Reviewing<br />
agronomic practices that use parasitic germination<br />
stimulant production as a target for manipulation to<br />
control parasitic weeds.]<br />
Fischer, E., Lobin, W. and Mutke, J. 2011. Striga barthlottii<br />
(Orobanchaceae), a new parasitic species from Morocco.<br />
Willdenowia 41(1): 51-56. [Describing S. barthlottii,<br />
endemic to Morocco and specific to succulent Euphorbia<br />
species, previously mistaken for S. gesnerioides. The<br />
corolla lobes of S. barthlottii are rounded and about as<br />
long as wide while S. gesnerioides has long, narrow<br />
corolla lobes. The corolla of S. barthlottii is pale<br />
pink/whitish, while in S. gesnerioides it is usually violet.<br />
The stem of Striga barthlottii is typically unbranched,<br />
while typical S. gesnerioides is richly branched.]<br />
Furuhashi, T., Fragner, L., Furuhashi, K., Valledor, L., Sun<br />
XiaoLiang and Weckwerth, W. 2012. Metabolite<br />
changes with induction of Cuscuta haustorium and<br />
translocation from host plants. Journal of Plant<br />
Interactions 7(1): 84-93. [Showing that metabolic<br />
components of Cuscuta japonica varied according to the<br />
host on which it was growing.]<br />
Garcia M.A. 2012. Cuscuta. In: Castroviejo S. (ed.) Flora<br />
Iberica. Plantas vasculares de la península Ibérica e Islas<br />
Baleares, vol. 11, pp. 292-310. Madrid: Real Jardín<br />
Botánico, CSIC. [Keys and descriptions for the nine<br />
species of dodder occurring on the Iberian peninsula and<br />
Balearic islands: C. approximata, C. epithymum, C.<br />
europaea, C. nivea, C. planiflora, C. triumviratus, C.<br />
australis, C. campestris, and C. monogyna.]<br />
Gaurav Gupta, Imran Kazmi, Muhammad Afzal, Mahfoozur<br />
Rahman, Shakir Saleem Ashraf, M.S., Khusroo, M.J.,<br />
Khalid Nazeer, Sayeed Ahmed, Mohd Mujeeb, Zubair<br />
Ahmed and Firoz Anwar. 2012. Sedative, antiepileptic<br />
and antipsychotic effects of Viscum album L.<br />
(Loranthaceae) in mice and rats. Journal of<br />
Ethnopharmacology 141(3): 810-816. [Concluding that<br />
V. album exhibited sedative, antiepileptic and<br />
antipsychotic activity in mice and rats.]<br />
Gaurav Sharma and Sundararaj, R 2011. Association of ants<br />
and honeydew producing sucking pests in Bangalore<br />
provenance of sandal (Santalum album Linn. Biological<br />
Forum 3(2): 62-64. [Different ants were found associated<br />
with five species of coccids on S. album.]<br />
Genini, J., Côrtes, M.C., Guimarães Júnior, P.R. and Galetti,<br />
M. 2012, Mistletoes play different roles in a modular<br />
host-parasite network. Biotropica 44(2): 171-178.<br />
[Finding a wider host range for Psittacanthus spp. than<br />
for Phoradendron spp. in the Brazilian Pantanal,<br />
apparently associated with a wider range of bird<br />
dispersers.]<br />
Ghannam, I., Al-Masri, M. and Barakat, R. 2012.The effect<br />
of herbicides on the Egyptian broomrape (Orobanche<br />
aegyptiaca) in tomato fields. American Journal of Plant<br />
Sciences 3(3): 346-352. [Post-emergence application of<br />
chlorsulfuron, triasulfuron and imazaquin caused<br />
substantial death of O. aegyptiaca without significant<br />
increase or decrease in tomato yield.]<br />
Ghotbi, M., Rouhi, H.R., Amini Dehagi, M., Ghotbi, M.,<br />
Moghaddam Khamseh, A.H. and Wahsha, M. 2012.<br />
Mitigate Phelipanche aegyptiaca Pers. infestation<br />
considering natural environment conservation.<br />
International Journal of AgriScience 2(1): 62-77.<br />
[Various crops grown in P. aegyptiaca-infested pots for<br />
2 months before planting tomato seedlings. Cotton,<br />
sorghum and tomato significantly reduced infestation.]<br />
Gianguzzi, L., D'Amico, A. Romano, S. 2010.<br />
Phytosociological remarks on residual woodlands of<br />
Laurus nobilis in Sicily. Lazaroa 31: 67-84. [Noting<br />
Orobanche hederae as a component of the laurel<br />
understory, associated with the presence of Hedera<br />
helix.]<br />
Glijin, A., Mîta, E., Levitçhi, A., Acciu, A., Calmîş, A. and<br />
Duca, M. 2011. Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase in normal<br />
and biotic stress conditions. Lucrări Sţiinţifice,<br />
Universitatea de Sţiintȩ Agricole Şi Medicină Veterinară<br />
"Ion Ionescu de la Brad" Iaşi, Seria Horticultură 54(2):<br />
97-102. [Studies on Orobanche cumana in Moldova<br />
confirm the role of PAL in the expression of biochemical<br />
mechanisms of resistance to the parasite.]<br />
Goldwasser, Y., Miryamchik, H., Sibony, M. and Rubin, B.<br />
2012. Detection of resistant chickpea (Cicer arietinum)<br />
genotypes to Cuscuta campestris (field dodder). Weed<br />
Research 52(2): 122-130. [Among 52 international<br />
varieties of chickpea and 11 local varieties tested in pot<br />
experiments in Israel, ICV 95333 and Hazera 4 showed<br />
very high resistance to primary parasitism from C.<br />
campestris, and moderate resistance to secondary<br />
parasitism (when the C. campestris had first established<br />
on a susceptible variety).]<br />
Gómez-Sánchez, M., Sánchez-Fuentes, L.J. and Salazar-<br />
Olivo, L.A. 2011. (Anatomy of Mexican species of the<br />
genera Phoradendron and Psittacanthus, endemic to the<br />
New World.) (in Spanish) Revista Mexicana de<br />
Biodiversidad 82(4): 1203-1218. [Detailed and<br />
beautifully illustrated descriptions of the anatomy of<br />
leaves, stems, fruits and pollen of Phoradendron<br />
brachystachyum, P. carneum, P. forestierae,<br />
Psittacanthus calyculatus and Ps. palmeri.)<br />
Gong, L., Yang, Y.J. and Zhou, J. 2012. Genes involved in<br />
the synthesis and signaling pathway of strigolactone, a<br />
shoot branching inhibitor. Biologia Plantarum 56(2):<br />
210-214. [A review.]<br />
Gosline G. and Malécot V. 2012. A<br />
monograph of Octoknema (Octoknemaceae - Olacaceae<br />
s.l.). Kew Bulletin 66: 367-404. [A taxonomic revision<br />
of this African genus describes fourteen species, six of<br />
which are new]<br />
Goto, R., Yamakoshi, G. and Matsuzawa, T. 2012. A novel<br />
brood-site pollination mutualism?: the root holoparasite<br />
Thonningia sanguinea (Balanophoraceae) and an
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inflorescence-feeding fly in the tropical rainforests of<br />
West Africa. Plant Species Biology 27(2): 164-169.<br />
[Female flies of the families Muscidae and Calliphoridae<br />
as well as Technomyrmex ants are shown to be<br />
responsible for pollnation of T. sanguinea in Guinea.<br />
Morellia sp. (Muscidae) lays eggs on T. sanguinea, and<br />
the larvae feed only on the tissue of decaying male<br />
inflorescences.]<br />
Greuter, W. and Raus, T. 2010. Med-Checklist Notulae, 29.<br />
Willdenowia 40(2): 189-204. [Including an item<br />
recording Orobanche amethystea ssp. amethystea on<br />
Eryngium campestre in Crete.]<br />
Greuter, W. and Raus, T. 2011. Med-Checklist notulae, 30.<br />
Willdenowia 41(2): 311-328. [Including a note recording<br />
Orobanche rosmarina on Rosmarinus officinalis in<br />
Tunisia.]<br />
Greuter, W. and von Raab-Straube, E. 2009. Euro+Med<br />
Notulae, 4. Willdenowia 39(2): 327-333. [The authors<br />
indicate that the molecular data are inconclusive<br />
regarding segregating Phelipanche from Orobanche and<br />
thus propose two new combinations, O. shultzioides and<br />
O. tricholoba.]<br />
Grudnicki, M., Barbu, C. and Curelaru, C. 2010. The<br />
influence of mistletoe (Viscum album spp. abietis) attack<br />
on fir tree (Abies alba) in Solca forest arrondissement<br />
Suceava District. Lucrări Sţiinţifice, Universitatea de<br />
Sţiintȩ Agricole Şi Medicină Veterinară "Ion Ionescu de<br />
la Brad" Iaşi, Seria Horticultură 53(1): 585-590. [In<br />
Romania, V. album reduces wood quality of fir and<br />
increases vulnerability to strong winds, heavy snow falls,<br />
and the attacks of insects and fungus.]<br />
Guo Hui, Weiner, J., Mazer, S.J., Zhao ZhiGang; Du<br />
GuoZhen and Li Bo. 2012. Reproductive allometry in<br />
Pedicularis species changes with elevation. Journal of<br />
Ecology (Oxford) 100(2): 452-458. [Studying 24<br />
Pedicularis spp. in Tibet and showing that the ratio of<br />
reproductive to vegetative growth decreases with<br />
increasing elevation.]<br />
Guo Yu Zhao, JiangYan, Luan Na, Zhang Jing and Li Di.<br />
2011. Antioxidant function of flavonoids from Songaria<br />
cynomorium Herb. Medicinal Plant 2(12): 14-16.<br />
Hahn, V. and Wieckhorst, S., 2010. Mapping and tagging of<br />
simply inherited traits. In: Genetics, genomics and<br />
breeding of sunflower. Hu, J., Seiler, G. and Kole, C.<br />
(eds) 2010, 111-133. [With emphasis on breeding for<br />
resistance to Orobanche cumana.]<br />
Haidar, M.G. and Askary, T.H. 2011. Management of plant<br />
parasitic nematodes through botanicals and growth of<br />
sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.). Annals of Plant<br />
Protection Sciences 19(2): 433-436. [Cuscuta reflexa,<br />
Orobanche (unspecified) and ‘Loranthus’ (unspecified)<br />
among ‘botanicals’ failing to show useful activity<br />
against nematodes.]<br />
Hajtó, T., Fodor, K., Perjési, P. and Németh, P. 2011.<br />
Difficulties and perspectives of immunomodulatory<br />
therapy with mistletoe lectins and standardized mistletoe<br />
extracts in evidence-based medicine. Evidence-based<br />
Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011: Article<br />
ID 298972, 6 pp. [A review concluding that research on<br />
lectins from Viscum album needs new perspectives The<br />
advantages and disadvantages of purified and<br />
biologically better defined lectin preparations are also<br />
discussed.]<br />
Hanumantha, M., Gunaga, R.P., Patil, R.S., Nagaraja and<br />
Biradar, S.S. 2012. Natural regeneration in Santalum<br />
album Linn: a case study from campus of Forest<br />
Training Institute, Gungargatti, Dharwad, Karnataka.<br />
Indian Forester 138(4): 386-389. [Discussing a variety of<br />
factors influencing regeneration of S. album.]<br />
Hao YuanYuan, Yue LiJun, Kang JianJun and Wang<br />
SuoMin. 2012. (Research progress on "desert ginseng" -<br />
Cistanche deserticola and Cynomeorium songaricum.)<br />
(in Chinese) Acta Prataculturae Sinica 21(2): 286-293.<br />
[A general review on the biology and uses of C.<br />
deserticola and Cynomorium songaricum, with emphasis<br />
on the possibilities for artifical inoculation methods.]<br />
Harbaugh-Reynaud, D.T. 2011. The International<br />
Sandalwood Foundation: A non-profit organization<br />
dedicated to scientific research and sustainable<br />
harvesting of sandalwood. Sandalwood Research<br />
Newsletter 26: 5-6.<br />
Hassan, M.M., Abdelgani, M.E., Babiker, A.E. and Osman,<br />
M.G. 2010. Effect of Klebsiella spp. and different<br />
ethylene inhibitors on Striga hermonthica Benth. (Del.)<br />
seeds germination. Asian Journal of Agricultural<br />
Sciences 2(3): 94-98. [Silver nitrate and cobalt chloride,<br />
known inhibitors of ethylene biosynthesis, reduced<br />
germination of S. hermonthica. Volatiles from Klebsiella<br />
spp., presumed to be ethylene, promoted germination.]<br />
Hayatu, M. and Bala, R. 2011. Effects of Striga<br />
gesnerioides on the growth and yield of some cowpea<br />
(Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) genotypes under water<br />
stress condition. Bayero Journal of Pure and Applied<br />
Sciences 4(2): 12-17’ [Resistance to S. gesnerioides<br />
confirmed in varieties IT97K-499-35 and IT98K-205-8,<br />
apparently regardless of water stress.]<br />
Henderson, R.C., Sultan, A. and Robertson, A.W. 2010.<br />
Scale insect fauna (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha:<br />
Coccoidea) of New Zealand's pygmy mistletoes<br />
(Korthalsella: Viscaceae) with description of three new<br />
species: Leucaspis albotecta, L. trilobata (Diaspididae)<br />
and Eriococcus korthalsellae (Eriococcidae). Zootaxa<br />
2644: 1-24. [Apart from the new species referred to in<br />
the title, 10 other scale insects are listed as occurring on<br />
Korthalsella clavata, K. lindsayi and K. salicornioides.]<br />
Heredia-Bobadilla, R.L., Gutiérrez-González, G., Franco-<br />
Maass, S. and Arzate-Fernández, A.M. 2012. Genetic<br />
variability of sacred fir (Abies religiosa) in the Nevado<br />
de Toluca National Park. International Journal of<br />
Biodiversity and Conservation 4(3): 130-136. [Noting<br />
that A. religiosa (in Mexico) is threatened by unspecified<br />
Arceuthobium spp.]<br />
Hettiarachichi, D.S., Gamage, M. and Subasinghe, U. 2010.<br />
Oil content analysis of sandalwood: A novel approach to
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core sample analysis. Sandalwood Research Newsletter<br />
25: 1-4.<br />
Hladni, N., Jocic´, S., Miklič, V., Sakač, Z. and Škoric´, D.<br />
2010. Assessment of quality of new Rf inbred lines<br />
resistant to broomrape race E (Orobanche cumana<br />
Wallr.) developed from H. deserticola by interspecific<br />
hybridization. Helia 33(53): 155-164. [Discussing the<br />
development of sunflower varieties resistant to race E of<br />
O. cumana in Serbia and Romania.]<br />
Hong ChangEui and Lyu SuYun. 2012. The antimutagenic<br />
effect of mistletoe lectin (Viscum album L. var.<br />
coloratum agglutinin). Phytotherapy Research, 26(5):<br />
787-790. [Confirming broad ranging antimutagenic<br />
effects of V. album extracts on numerous mutagens in<br />
TA98 and TA100 Salmonella typhimurium strains.]<br />
Höniges, A. and Pallag, A. 2011. Safety issues on<br />
spontaneous Orobanche species, in context global<br />
warming. Analele Universităţii din Oradea, Fascicula:<br />
Protecţia Mediului 16: 235-242. [Discussing the possible<br />
role of global warming in the decline of Orobanche<br />
populations in Romania and S. Germany and proposing<br />
means of conserving rare species.]<br />
Höniges, A. and Pallag, A. 2011. Correlation soil pollution -<br />
developing of endangered Orobanche spp. Analele<br />
Universităţii din Oradea, Fascicula: Protecţia Mediului<br />
16: 243-246. [Comparing soil conditions in areas of<br />
Romania and S. Germany for their influence on natural<br />
populations of Orobanche. Abstract inconclusive.]<br />
Hossain, M.E., Kim GwiMan, Sun SangSoo, Firman, J.D.<br />
and Yang ChulJu. 2012. Evaluation of water plantain<br />
(Alisma canaliculatum A. Br. et Bouche) and mistletoe<br />
(Viscum album L.) effects on broiler growth<br />
performance, meat composition and serum biochemical<br />
parameters. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research 6(11):<br />
2160-2169. [The addition of V. album to the diet of<br />
chickens (basal diet+0.5% mistletoe powder) in Korea<br />
caused some hepatotoxic effect and is not<br />
recommended.]<br />
Huang, K., Whitlock, R., Press, M.C. and Scholes, J.D.<br />
2012. Variation for host range within and among<br />
populations of the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica.<br />
Heredity 108(2): 96-104. [Identifying a small subset of<br />
AFLP markers which showed 'outlier' genetic<br />
differentiation among sub-populations of S. hermonthica<br />
attached to different rice cultivars, suggesting a genetic<br />
component to host range within populations of S.<br />
hermonthica.]<br />
Hynson, N.A., Mambelli, S., Amend, A.S. and Dawson,<br />
T.E. 2012. Measuring carbon gains from fungal<br />
networks in understory plants from the tribe Pyroleae<br />
(Ericaceae): a field manipulation and stable isotope<br />
approach. Oecologia 169(2): 307-317. [Results suggest<br />
that Chimaphila umbellata is primarily an autotrophic<br />
understory plant, while Pyrola picta may be capable of<br />
partial mycoheterotrophy.]<br />
Inácio, C.A., Araúz, K. and Piepenbring, M. 2012. A new<br />
genus of Parmulariaceae from Panama. Mycological<br />
Progress 11(1): 1-6. [A new species, Antoniomyces<br />
loranthicola, described from Gaiadendron punctatum<br />
(Loranthaceae.]<br />
Inuwa, H.M., Aina, V.O., Ibrahim, S. and Ameh, D.A. 2012.<br />
Hypoglycaemic activity of Globimetulla browni<br />
(Loranthaceae) extracts in streptozotocin-induced<br />
diabetic Wistar rats during wet season. International<br />
Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances 4(1): 16-18.<br />
[The antihyperglycemic activity of extracts of G.<br />
brownie was associated with an increase in plasma<br />
insulin level, suggesting an insulinogenic activity of the<br />
extract.]<br />
Inuwa, H.M., Aina, V.O., Ibrahim, S. and Ameh, D.A. 2012.<br />
Hypoglycaemic activity of Globimetulla browni extracts<br />
in streptozotocin-induced diabetic Wistar rats during dry<br />
season. International Journal of Animal and Veterinary<br />
Advances 4(1): 19-21. [Abstract exactly as above. Only<br />
the titles differ in dry v. wet season.]<br />
Iwalokun, B.A., Oyenuga, A.O., Saibu, G.M. and Ayorinde,<br />
J. 2011. Analyses of cytotoxic and genotoxic potentials<br />
of Loranthus micranthus using the Allium cepa test.<br />
Current Research Journal of Biological Sciences 3(5):<br />
459-467. [L. micranthus (= Ileostylus micranthus) is<br />
used traditionally in Nigeria for the management of<br />
immuno-depressive illnesses such as diabetes mellitus,<br />
cancer and hypertension. This study showed that it is<br />
cytotoxic, mitodepressive and genotoxic to A. cepa roots<br />
and recommends caution in its use on humans.]<br />
Iwashina, T. 2010. Flavonoids from two parasitic and<br />
achlorophyllous plants, Aeginetia indica and Orobanche<br />
minor (Orobanchaceae). Bulletin of the National<br />
Museum of Nature and Science. Series B, Botany 36(3):<br />
127-132. [Eight flavonoids identified from A. indica and<br />
two from O. minor. Only 7-O-glucuronide occurred in<br />
both.]<br />
Jacobo-Salcedo, M. del R. and 13 others. 2011.<br />
Antimicrobial and cytotoxic effects of Mexican<br />
medicinal plants. Natural Product Communications<br />
6(12): 1925-1928. [Phoradendron longifolium, P.<br />
serotinum and Psittacanthus calyculatus included in<br />
anti-microbial and anti-cancer tests. P. longiflorum<br />
showed potent antimicrobial effects, while P. serotinum<br />
showed activity against several human cancer lines.]<br />
Jamil, M., Charnikhova, T., Houshyani, B., van Ast, A. and<br />
Bouwmeester, H.J. 2012. Genetic variation in<br />
strigolactone production and tillering in rice and its<br />
effect on Striga hermonthica infection. Planta 235(3)<br />
473-484. [Comparisons among a range of rice varieties<br />
confirmed a negative correlation between strigolactone<br />
production and tillering, and a corresponding tendency<br />
for lower infestation of S. hermonthica on high-tillering<br />
varieties.]<br />
Jamil, M., Kanampiu, F., Karaya, H., Tatsiana Charnikhova<br />
and Bouwmeester, H., 2012. Striga hermonthica<br />
parasitism in maize in response to soil fertility. Field<br />
Crops Research 134: 1-10. [In a combination of<br />
greenhouse/lab and field experiments the paper shows<br />
that in the greenhouse, increasing availability of N and P
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strongly reduce the exudation of strigolactones in maize<br />
which results in reduced infection with Striga. In the<br />
field the results are less consistent, particularly for P<br />
application, although N application did reduce Striga<br />
infection, probably because of physiochemical properties<br />
of the field soil.]<br />
Janarthanam, B. and Sumathi, E. 2011. High frequency<br />
shoot regeneration from internodal explants of Santalum<br />
album L. International Journal of Botany 7(3): 249-254.<br />
[Describing the culture media and procedures for the<br />
successful generation of explants of S. album from<br />
internodal material.]<br />
Jang JiYeon, Kim HaNeui, Kim YuRi, Choi YungHyun,<br />
Kim ByungWoo, Shin HwaKyoung and Choi ByungTae.<br />
2012. Aqueous fraction from Cuscuta japonica seed<br />
suppresses melanin synthesis through inhibition of the<br />
p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway<br />
in B16F10 cells. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 141(1):<br />
338-344. [Confirming that C. japonica seed preparation<br />
can reduce alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-<br />
MSH)-induced melanogenesis via reduction of melanin<br />
synthesis and tyrosinase activity.]<br />
Jeetendra Sainkhediya and Sudip Ray. 2012. Preliminary<br />
study of flowering plant diversity of Nimar region.<br />
Bioscience Discovery Journal 3(1) 70-72. [Viscum<br />
articulatum noted to be being depleted at an alarming<br />
rate in this area of Madhya Pradesh.].<br />
Jerinic´-Prodanovic´, D. and Protic´, L. 2011. New data on<br />
true bug predators (Heteroptera: Miridae) of jumping<br />
plant-lice (Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea) in Serbia. Acta<br />
Entomologica Serbica 16(1/2): 143-146. [Reporting<br />
Hypseloeucus visci as a predator of Cacopsylla visci<br />
[Psylla visci] on Viscum album.]<br />
Jia YaMin, Guan QiuNong, Guo YuHai and Du CaiGan.<br />
2012. Echinacoside stimulates cell proliferation and<br />
prevents cell apoptosis in intestinal epithelial MODE-K<br />
cells by up-regulation of transforming growth factor-β1<br />
expression. Journal of Pharmacological Sciences 118(1):<br />
99-108. [Suggesting that echinacoside is one of the<br />
ingredients in herbal C. deserticola improving mucosal<br />
tissue repair by stimulating intestinal epithelial cell<br />
proliferation and preventing cell death via up-regulation<br />
of TGF-β.]<br />
Jin AiHua, Piao Long, Yin XueZhe and Quan JiShu. 2012.<br />
(Anti-tumor effect of iridoid glucosides from<br />
Boschniakia rossica in H 22 -bearing mice.) (in Chinese)<br />
Zhongcaoyao = Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs<br />
43(2): 332-335. [Glucosides from B. rossica had an<br />
inhibitory effect on the growth of transplanted H 22<br />
tumour, probably via the regulation of IL-2 and TNF-α<br />
expression as well as improvement of anti-oxidant<br />
capability of H 22 -bearing mice.]<br />
Jung JinHyuk, Kim YoungHoon, Song TaeJun, An HyoSun,<br />
Kim KyuDae, Kim InBo, Yoon TaekJoon and Kim<br />
JongBae. 2011. Adjuvant effect of Korean mistletoe<br />
lectin on mucosal immunity induction following<br />
intranasal immunization with hemagglutinin antigen.<br />
Food Science and Biotechnology 20(3): 629-634.<br />
[Confirming that lectin from Viscum album ssp.<br />
coloratum (KML-C) has the ability to serve as a mucosal<br />
adjuvant.]<br />
Kanade, M.B. and Gham, S.K. 2011. Effect of acid<br />
scarification on seed germination and seedling growth in<br />
Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. Advances in Plant Sciences<br />
24(2): 707-708. [No abstract available.]<br />
Kang XinPing, An Zhe and Rena Kasmu. 2012. (Research<br />
progress of chemical constituents and content analysis of<br />
mark components of Cynomorium songaricum Rupr.) (in<br />
Chinese) Northwest Pharmaceutical Journal 27(1): 81-<br />
83. [A review noting that the main components of C.<br />
songaricum are catechin, ursolic acid, tannin and<br />
polysaccharide.]<br />
Karanja, J., Nguluu, S. and Gatheru, M. 2012. Farm yard<br />
manure reduces the virulence of Alectra vogelii (Benth)<br />
on cowpea (Vigna unguiculata). African Journal of Plant<br />
Science 6(3): 130-136. [Field trials in Kenya showed<br />
farm yard manure at 5 or 10 t/ha reduced A. vogelii<br />
density by >50% and increased crop yield.]<br />
Karaya, H., Njoroge, K., Mugo, S., Ariga, E.S., Kanampiu,<br />
F. and Nderitu, J.H. 2012. Determination of levels of<br />
Striga germination stimulants for maize gene bank<br />
accessions and elite inbred lines. International Journal of<br />
Plant Production 6(2): 209-224. [Screening of 420 maize<br />
lines for germination of S. hermonthica showed low<br />
stimulation in landraces CRIC 51, CUBA T-31, BRAZ<br />
1758, BRAZ 1279 and VERA 217 and in CIMMYT<br />
lines CML 202 IR, CML 445 IR and CML 204 IR.<br />
Karpavičius, J. and Karpavičius, J. 2011. (The features of<br />
European mistletoe (Viscum album L.) influence to the<br />
radial growth and state of Populus L. genus trees.) (in<br />
Lithuanian) Miškininkystė, 2(70): 49-57. [Showing that<br />
V. album infestation does not affect breast-height radial<br />
growth of P. nigra and P. canadensis but does seriously<br />
affect branch growth above points of attachment,<br />
resulting in death after 5-10 years and risk of fungal<br />
infection.]<br />
Kawo, A.H., Suleiman, Z.A. and Yusha'u, M. 2011. Studies<br />
on the antibacterial activity and chemical constituents of<br />
Khaya senegalensis and Ximenia americana leaf<br />
extracts. African Journal of Microbiology Research<br />
5(26): 4562-4568. [Extracts of X. americana failed to<br />
kill a range of wound bacteria, but chemical analysis<br />
showed the presence of potentially active compounds<br />
and suggested that higher doses could give results<br />
justifying their traditional use on wound infections in<br />
Nigeria.]<br />
*Kester, M. 2012. Investigation trip to the United States of<br />
America to investigate golden dodder control options.<br />
Rural Industries Research and Development<br />
Corporation. https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/items/12-<br />
009 [Describing the control measures used to control<br />
Cuscuta campestris on lucerne in USA, including<br />
paraquat plus burning, flaming, sulphuric acid spraying,<br />
crop rotation into cereals, and the herbicides trifluralin
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and pendimethalin. Also the use of glyphosate on a<br />
recently released Round-up-resistant lucerne.]<br />
Kgosi, R.L., Zwanenburg, B., Mwakaboko, A.S. and<br />
Murdoch, A.J. 2012. Strigolactone analogues induce<br />
suicidal seed germination of Striga spp. in soil. Weed<br />
Research 52(3): 197-203. [Describing 5 new<br />
strigolactone analogues which were apparently active in<br />
soil of neutral pH . One dericved from 1-tetralone was<br />
distinctly more active than the standard Nijmegen-1. The<br />
abstract refers to ‘no noticeable signs of decomposition’<br />
but experimental evidence for this is not presented.]<br />
Kim SanWoong, Yoo SeungHyeong, Lee HeeJae, Kim,<br />
K.D., Kim DoRim, Park SeongKyu and Chang<br />
MunSeog. 2012. Cistanches herba induces testis<br />
cytotoxicity in male mice. Bulletin of Environmental<br />
Contamination and Toxicology 88(1): 112-117. [At the<br />
doses used, extracts of Cistanche (presumably C.<br />
deserticola and/or C. tubulosa) induce cytotoxicity in the<br />
male reproductive system of mice, through inhibition of<br />
spermatogenesis, testicular damage, and limiting<br />
hormonal function.]<br />
Koga, C., Mwenje, E. and Garwe, D. 2011. Response of<br />
tobacco cultivars to varying fertiliser levels in Striga<br />
gesnerioides infested soils in Zimbabwe. Agricultural<br />
Journal 6(6): 347-352. [Among 5 tobacco varieties, 2<br />
landraces were severely damaged by S. gesnerioides<br />
while variety T66 was relatively tolerant. Parasite<br />
emergence, and damage to T66, was reduced by<br />
increasing N from 25 to 50 kg/ha.]<br />
Komova, G.A. 2010. (Stand dynamics of some types of oak<br />
forests in southern Primorye [Maritime Province,<br />
Russian Far East]) (in Russian). Lesovedenie, 1: 22-30.<br />
[Discussing types of Quercus mongolica forest including<br />
Melampyrum/Carex.]<br />
Kretzschmar, T., Kohlen, W., Sasse, J., Borghi, L., Schlegel,<br />
M., Bachelier, J.B., Reinhardt, D., Bours, R.,<br />
Bouwmeester H.J. and Martinoia, E. 2012. A petunia<br />
ABC protein controls strigolactone dependent symbiotic<br />
signalling and branching. Nature 483: 341-346 [The<br />
authors cloned an ABC transporter from Petunia and<br />
show it is involved in strigolactone export. A mutant and<br />
transgenic knock-down plants secrete negligible amounts<br />
of strigolactones and have a (mild) branching phenotype.<br />
Intriguingly, the transporter seems to be expressed in<br />
specific cell-types in the root particularly, possibly in the<br />
hypodermal passage cells where AM fungi enter.<br />
Unexpectedly, the transporter is also expressed near the<br />
axillary buds.]<br />
Kuijt, J. 2011. Two new species of Oryctanthus<br />
(Loranthaceae) from Colombia and French Guiana.<br />
Novon 21(4): 463-467. [O. grammatus desribed from<br />
Colombia and O. guianensis from French Guiana.]<br />
Kuijt, J. 2011. Thirteen new species of neotropical<br />
Viscaceae (Dendrophthora and Phoradendron). Novon<br />
21(4): 444-462. [Describing 2 new Dendrophthora spp.,<br />
from Bolivia and Ecuador, 8 Phoradendron spp. from<br />
Peru, and 3 Phoradendron spp. from Venezuela.]<br />
Kuijt, J. 2011. Loranthaceae Jussieu. 79. Eremolepdaceae<br />
Tiegh. ex Nakai,, in: C. Marticorena & R. Rodríguez<br />
(eds.) Flora de Chile 3(1): 9-24. [This treatment covers<br />
Desmaria (1 sp.), Ligaria (1 sp.), Notanthera (1 sp.) and<br />
Tristerix (3 spp.) for Loranthaceae. The concept of<br />
‘Eremolepidaceae’ as a family is still being followed<br />
(modern works place these genera in Santalaceae)<br />
including Antidaphne (1 sp.) and Lepidoceras (1 sp.).]<br />
Kuijt, Job. 2011. Monograph of the genus Dendropemon<br />
(Loranthaceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 92: 1-110. [The last<br />
comprehensive examination of this genus was in the late<br />
1800s. This monograph describes 31 species distributed<br />
among the Caribbean islands.]<br />
Kuijt, Job. 2011. A note on isophasic parasitism in<br />
Phoradendron perredactum (Viscaceae). Acta Bot.<br />
Mexicana 96: 7-9. [A short note comparing the isophasic<br />
nature of growth in this mistletoe to other parasites<br />
where this has also evolved (e.g. Arceuthobium,<br />
Pilostyles, etc.).]<br />
Kuijt, Job. 2012. Viscaceae, in: Baldwin, B.G., Goldman,<br />
D.H., Keil, D.J., Patterson, R. and Rosatti T.J. (eds.)<br />
Jepson's Manual, 2nd. edition. University of California<br />
Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, pp. 1275-1278. [The<br />
book, published in January, complements the Jepson<br />
Online Interchange and the Jepson eFlora. Herein<br />
Viscaceae includes Arceuthobium (12 spp.),<br />
Phoradendron (7 spp.), and Viscum (1 sp.).]<br />
Kuijt, Job. 2012. Reinstatement and expansion of the genus<br />
Peristethium Tiegh. (Loranthaceae). Annals of the<br />
Missouri Bot. Garden 98(4): 542-577. [Generic<br />
boundaries in the neotropical small-flowered loranths are<br />
further redefined. The genus Peristethium Tiegh. is<br />
resurrected and now includes 15 mistletoe species, ten of<br />
which were formerly classified in Struthanthus and<br />
Cladocolea.]<br />
Kulkarni, C.R., Joglekar, M.M., Patil, S.B. and Arvindekar,<br />
A.U. 2012. Antihyperglycemic and antihyperlipidemic<br />
effect of Santalum album in streptozotocin induced<br />
diabetic rats. Pharmaceutical Biology 50(3): 360-365.<br />
[Concluding that S. album pet ether fraction has potential<br />
antihyperlipidemic activity that can help in overcoming<br />
insulin resistance.]<br />
Kutyna, I., Drewniak, E. and Młynkowiak, E. 2012. (Plant<br />
communities within xerothermic and psammophilous<br />
grasslands on the edge of the Oder river valley in<br />
Owczary.) (in Polish) Folia Pomeranae Universitatis<br />
Technologiae Stetinensis, Agricultura, Alimentaria,<br />
Piscaria et Zootechnica 293(21): 61-88. [Referring to<br />
Orobanche lutea under strict protection and Thesium<br />
linophyllum in danger of extinction (in Poland).]<br />
Lamont, B.B., Downes, K.S., Lawes, M.J. and Clarke, P.J.<br />
2011. Fire-stimulated flowering among resprouters and<br />
geophytes in Australia and South Africa. Plant Ecology<br />
212(12): 2111-2125. [Including reference to mistletoes<br />
unspecified in the abstract.]<br />
Lebesa, L.N., Khan, Z.R., Krüger, K., Bruce, T.J.A.,<br />
Hassanali, A. and Pickett, J.A. 2012. Farmers'<br />
knowledge and perceptions of blister beetles, Hycleus
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spp. (Coleoptera: Meloidae), as pest herbivores of<br />
Desmodium legumes in western Kenya. International<br />
Journal of Pest Management 58(2): 165-174. [Hycleus<br />
spp. reported to be important pests of Desmodium spp.<br />
by 75% of farmers in western Kenya (relevant to the use<br />
of Desmodium in control of Striga spp.). They also<br />
attack sweet potato.]<br />
Lee MengShiou, Chen ChaoJung, Wan Lei, Koizumi, A.,<br />
Chang WenTe, Yang MengJa, Lin WenHsin, Tsai<br />
FuuJen and Lin MingKuem. 2011. Quercetin is<br />
increased in heat-processed Cuscuta campestris seeds,<br />
which enhances the seed's anti-inflammatory and antiproliferative<br />
activities. Process Biochemistry 46(12):<br />
2248-2254. [Showing that the process of ‘stir-baking’<br />
seeds of C. campestris increased levels of quercetin in<br />
the seeds and also increased anti-inflammatory and<br />
antiproliferative activities.]<br />
Lee YunMi, Kim YoungSook, Lee YoungSeop, Kim<br />
JungHyun, Sun Hang, Kim JooHwan and Kim JinSook.<br />
2012. Inhibitory activities of pancreatic lipase and<br />
phosphodiesterase from Korean medicinal plant extracts.<br />
Phytotherapy Research 26(5): 778-782. [Viscum album<br />
(whole plant) exhibited antilipase activity.]<br />
Lemaitre, A.B., Troncoso, A.J. and Niemeyer, H.M. 2012.<br />
Host preference of a temperate mistletoe: disproportional<br />
infection on three co-occurring host species influenced<br />
by differential success. Austral Ecology 37(3): 339-345.<br />
[Discussing differences in the establishment of Tristerix<br />
verticillatus on hosts Schinus montanus, Fabiana<br />
imbricata and Berberis montana in Chile, depending on<br />
the seed source and behaviour of the bird disperser<br />
Mimus thenca.]<br />
Li AiRong, Smith, S.E., Smith, F.A. and Guan KaiYun.<br />
2012. Inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi<br />
suppresses initiation of haustoria in the root hemiparasite<br />
Pedicularis tricolor. Annals of Botany 109(6): 1075-<br />
1080. [AM fungi had strong and direct suppressive<br />
effects on haustorium formation in P. tricolor in the<br />
presence or absence of host plants.]<br />
Li Jing, Deng ShuYong and Wang JianHong. 2011.<br />
(Extracting technology of total flavonoids from China<br />
Dodder by uni-form design method.) (in Chinese)<br />
Journal of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese<br />
Medicine 13(11): 53-54. [The optimal conditions for<br />
extraction from Cuscuta chinensis include extraction<br />
time of 60 min, temperature 80°C, ratio between solid<br />
and fluid 1:100 and concentration of ethanol 52%.]<br />
Li TeMao, Huang HsinChih, Su ChenMing, Ho TinYun,<br />
Wu ChiMing, Chen WenChi, Fong YiChin and Tang<br />
ChihHsin. 2012. Cistanche deserticola extract increases<br />
bone formation in osteoblasts. Journal of Pharmacy and<br />
Pharmacology 64(6): 897-907. [Concluding that C.<br />
deserticola extract may be a novel bone formation agent<br />
for the treatment of osteoporosis.]<br />
Lin HuiBin, Lu Ning and Lin JianQiang. 2012. (Influence of<br />
different hosts on quality in Semen Cuscutae.) (in<br />
Chinese) China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine<br />
and Pharmacy 27(3): 625-627. [Analysing 19 different<br />
samples of Semen Cuscutae based on Cuscuta spp.<br />
including C. chinensis and concluding that content of<br />
flavonoids varies according to the host on which the<br />
Cuscuta has grown.]<br />
Liu MeiJie and 12 others. 2012. Therapeutic effects of radix<br />
dipsaci, pyrola herb, and cynomorium songaricum on<br />
bone metabolism of ovariectomized rats. BMC<br />
Complementary and Alternative Medicine 12: 67.<br />
[Results support the use of C. songaricum extract as an<br />
alternative therapeutic agent for postmenopausal<br />
osteoporosis.]<br />
Liu Wei, and 15 others. 2011. Strigolactone biosynthesis in<br />
Medicago truncatula and rice requires the symbiotic<br />
GRAS-type transcription factors NSP1 and NSP2., Plant<br />
Cell 23(10): 3853-3865. [NODULATION SIGNALING<br />
PATHWAY1 (NSP1) and NSP2 are transcription factors<br />
that are essential for rhizobium Nod factor-induced<br />
nodulation. Using transgenic lines, the authors show that<br />
NSP1 and NSP2 are indispensable for strigolactone (SL)<br />
biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula and in rice. The<br />
disturbed SL<br />
biosynthesis in nsp1 nsp2 mutant backgrounds correlates<br />
with reduced expression of DWARF27, a gene essential<br />
for SL biosynthesis.]<br />
lo Gullo, M.A., Glatzel, G., Devkota, M., Raimondo, F.,<br />
Trifilò, P. and Richter, H. 2012. Mistletoes and mutant<br />
albino shoots on woody plants as mineral nutrient traps.<br />
Annals of Botany 109(6): 1101-1109. [Showing that the<br />
higher levels of potassium, sulphur and zinc in Scurrula<br />
elata compared with those in the hosts Citrus sinensis<br />
and Nerium oleander (as in albino shoots of the latter) is<br />
due to the lack of phloem loading (and hence export<br />
from the foliage) rather than any selective transport via<br />
the haustorium.]<br />
Lobo, R., Vijay Sodde, Nipun Dashora, Nilesh Gupta and<br />
Prabhu Kirti. 2011. Quantification of flavonoid and<br />
phenol content from Macrosolen parasiticus (L.)<br />
Danser. Journal of Natural Product and Plant Resources<br />
1(4): 96-99. [Measuring total phenolic and flavonoid<br />
contents of M. parasiticus ‘an important plant in the<br />
Indian system of medicine’.]<br />
Lombardo, S., Longo, A. M G., lo Monaco, A. and<br />
Mauromicale, G. 2012. The effect of soil solarization<br />
and fumigation on pests and yields in greenhouse<br />
tomatoes. Crop Protection 37: 59-64. [Solarization was<br />
‘particularly valuable’ for the suppression of Orobanche<br />
ramosa in tomato.]<br />
Lu TzuLi, Chuang JingYuan, Yang JaiSing, Chiu ShauTing,<br />
Hsiao NaiWan, Wu MeiChen, Wu ShihHsiung and Hsu<br />
ChingHsiang. 2011. Production of active<br />
nonglycosylated recombinant B-chain of type-2<br />
ribosome-inactivating protein from Viscum articulatum<br />
and its biological effects on peripheral blood<br />
mononuclear cells. Evidence-based Complementary and<br />
Alternative Medicine 2011: Article ID 283747, 9 pp.<br />
[Type-2 ribosome-inactivating proteins are composed of<br />
a toxic A-chain and lectin-like B-chain. This study
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confirms the B-chain fragment as a potential<br />
immunomodulator.]<br />
Ma YongQing, Dong ShuQi, Ren XiangXiang, An Yu and<br />
Lang Ming 2012. (Parasitic weed Orobanche spp. and<br />
perspective of its control methods.) (in Chinese) Chinese<br />
Journal of Biological Control 28(1): 133-138. [A general<br />
review with emphasis on the use of trap and catch crops.]<br />
Ma YongQing, Lang Ming, Dong ShuQi, Shui JunFeng and<br />
Zhao JunXin. 2012. Screening of some cotton varieties<br />
for allelopathic potential on clover broomrape<br />
germination. Agronomy Journal 104(3): 569-574.<br />
[Describing varied activity (allelopathic apparently<br />
meaning stimulatory) of exudates from 6 varieties of<br />
cotton (G. hirsutum and G. barbadense) on Orobanche<br />
minor germination and confirming that the activity of<br />
extracts from the stem correlated with those from roots.]<br />
Ma YongQing, Zhang Wei, Dong ShuQi, Ren XiangXiang,<br />
An Yu and Lang Ming. 2012. Induction of seed<br />
germination in Orobanche spp. by extracts of traditional<br />
Chinese medicinal herbs. Science China Life Sciences<br />
55(3): 250-260. [Many species among 606 medicinal<br />
herbs stimulated germination of O. cumana, O.<br />
aegyptiaca and O. minor.]<br />
Maguire, A.J. and Menges, E.S. 2011. Post-fire growth<br />
strategies of resprouting Florida scrub vegetation. Fire<br />
Ecology 7(3): 12-25. [Including data on recovery of<br />
Ximenia americana from fire.]<br />
McPherson, S. 2012. Rafflesia: spectacular giants.<br />
Plantsman 11(1): 48-53. [The species of Rafflesia and<br />
their distribution, plant structure, growth cycle, habitat,<br />
conservation and cultivation are described.]<br />
Madhulika Bhagat and Saxena, A.K. 2011. In vitro antiproliferative,<br />
anti-bacterial potential and induction of<br />
DNA strand break of partially purified Cuscuta reflexa<br />
Roxb. International Journal of Green Pharmacy 5(4):<br />
307-313.<br />
Małecki, P.H., Rypniewski, W., Szyman´ski, M.,<br />
Barciszewski, J. and Meyer, A. 2012. Binding of the<br />
plant hormone kinetin in the active site of Mistletoe<br />
Lectin I from Viscum album. Biochimica et Biophysica<br />
Acta, Proteins & Proteomics 1824(2): 334-338.<br />
Mallory-Smith, C. and Colquhoun, J. 2012. Small<br />
broomrape (Orobanche minor) in Oregon and the 3 Rs:<br />
regulation, research, and reality. Weed Science 60(2)<br />
277-282. [Infestations of O. minor occurred in 22 fields<br />
of red clover in 2001 and quarantine regulations were<br />
imposed, but then relaxed in 2003. Control is achieved<br />
using false host crops and imazamox but some small<br />
populations still occur. (see also Haustorium 59 pp 2-3).]<br />
Mamontova, V.A. 2012. (New species of aphids of the<br />
family Lachnidae (Homoptera, Aphidoidea) from<br />
Ukraine and Russia.) Vestnik Zoologii 46(1): 37-44.<br />
[Describing Trama orobanches presumably occurring on<br />
Orobanche spp.?]<br />
Martin, L.L., Friedman, C.R. and Smith, R.G. 2011. Callus<br />
culture of Arceuthobium americanum Nutt. ex Englem.<br />
and explant response to varying auxin and cytokinin<br />
concentrations. Journal of Plant Tissue Culture and<br />
Biotechnology (PTC&B) 21(1): 1-10. [A. americanum<br />
successfully cultured in White’s medium. Manipulation<br />
of growth regulators show greater sensitivity to IAA<br />
than to cytokinin, suggesting reduced cytokinin<br />
sensitivity, consistent with the tendency for pariasitic<br />
plants to secrete high levels of cytokinin.]<br />
Matsuda, Y., Okochi, S., Katayama, T., Yamada, A. and Ito,<br />
S. 2011. Mycorrhizal fungi associated with<br />
Monotropastrum humile (Ericaceae) in central Japan.<br />
Mycorrhiza 21(6): 569-576. [Results indicate that the<br />
genetic diversity of mycorrhizal fungi of M. humile was<br />
highly specific to the Russulaceae, but diverse within<br />
that family, and that the fungi associated with M. humile<br />
differ from those associated with Monotropa uniflora.]<br />
Matsuo, Y. and Mimaki, Y. 2012. α-santalol derivatives<br />
from Santalum album and their cytotoxic activities.<br />
Phytochemistry 77: 304-311. [Seven derivatives<br />
identified including one with tumour-selective<br />
cytotoxicity.]<br />
Mehrvarz, S.S., Shavvon, R.S. and Golmohammadi, N.<br />
2012. Notes on the genus Viscum (Viscaceae) in Iran: a<br />
new combination based on morphological evidence.<br />
African Journal of Agricultural Research 7(11): 1694-<br />
1702. [Describing a new taxon: V. album subsp.<br />
golestanicum. The seed and fruit surfaces in V. album<br />
subsp. album are smooth while respectively wrinkled<br />
and furnished with platelet crystalloid ornamentations in<br />
the population from Golestan forest. Also the prophylls<br />
are two at the axils of each leaf in the former but four in<br />
the latter.]<br />
Mei QiWen, Zhang XinHua and Ma GuoHua. 2011.<br />
(Influence of rhizospheric pH value of host on growth of<br />
Indian sandalwood and preference to host.) (in Chinese)<br />
Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Botany 19(6): 565-<br />
570. [Comparing the rhizospheric pH values of 61 hosts<br />
of S. album and concluding that the optimum for S.<br />
album is pH 5.5.]<br />
Menkir, A., Franco, J., Adpoju, A. and Bossey, B. 2012.<br />
Evaluating consistency of resistance reactions of openpollinated<br />
maize cultivars to Striga hermonthica (Del.)<br />
Benth under artificial infestation. Crop Science 52(3):<br />
1051-1060. [Performance of 8 maize varieties compared<br />
over two sites over 5-6 years. ‘The resistant cultivars had<br />
low average ranks for grain yield under infestation (i.e.<br />
yielded well?), Striga damage rating, and emerged Striga<br />
plant count whereas the reverse was true for both the<br />
tolerant and susceptible cultivars. Cultivars with stable<br />
resistance, which can be used directly for cultivation or<br />
as sources of resistance alleles for breeding, were<br />
identified in this study.’]<br />
Mignouna, D.B., Manyong, V.M., Rusike, J., Mutabazi,<br />
K.D.S., Senkondo, E.M., Wesseler, J.; Aerni, P. 2011.<br />
Determinants of adopting imazapyr-resistant maize<br />
technologies and its impact on household income in<br />
western Kenya. AgBioForum 14(3): 158-163. [Results<br />
of the survey confirm that the use of IRM for Striga<br />
control is a reasonable means to raise small-farm income
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and reduce poverty in maize farming households. But<br />
noting that uptake continues to be low.]<br />
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Azam, M.N.K., Zubaida Khatun,<br />
Syeda Seraj, Farhana Islam, Rahman, M.A., Sharmin<br />
Jahan and Aziz, M.S. 2012. Medicinal plants used for<br />
treatment of diabetes by the Marakh sect of the Garo<br />
tribe living in Mymensingh District, Bangladesh. African<br />
Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative<br />
Medicines 9(3): 380-385. [Cuscuta reflexa among plants<br />
used traditionally for treatment of diabetes.]<br />
Morales, J.M., Rivarola, M.D., Amico, G. and Carlo, T.A.<br />
2012. Neighborhood effects on seed dispersal by<br />
frugivores: testing theory with a mistletoe-marsupial<br />
system in Patagonia. Ecology 93(4): 741-748. [A study<br />
on Tristerix corymbosus (Loranthaceae). Concluding<br />
that, as predicted by theory, plants in denser<br />
neighborhoods had greater fruit removal and shorter<br />
mean dispersal distances than more isolated plants.]<br />
Moreno-Escobar, J.A., Bazaldúa, S., Villarreal, M.L.,<br />
Bonilla-Barbosa, J.R., Mendoza, S. and Rodríguez-<br />
López, V. 2011. Cytotoxic and antioxidant activities of<br />
selected Lamiales species from Mexico. Pharmaceutical<br />
Biology 49(12): 1243-1248. [An extract from<br />
Pedicularis mexicana displayed ‘remarkably selective<br />
cytotoxic activity.’]<br />
Moustapha, B., Gutiérrez-Avella, D.M., Fuentes-Ordaz, R.,<br />
Castañeda-Moreno, R. and Martínez, M. 2011. Chemical<br />
constituents of the Mexican mistletoe (Psittacanthus<br />
calyculatus). Molecules 16(11): 9397-9403. [Identifying<br />
gallic acid, two flavonol-3-biosides and the non-protein<br />
amino acid N-methyl-trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline in<br />
extracts of P. calyculatus growing on Prosopsis<br />
laevigata.]<br />
Munson, S.M., Webb, R.H., Belnap, J., Hubbard, J.A.,<br />
Swann, D.E. and Rutman, S. 2012. Forecasting climate<br />
change impacts to plant community composition in the<br />
Sonoran Desert region. Global Change Biology 18(3):<br />
1083-1095. [In the most xeric shrublands, the<br />
codominant species Larrea tridentata and its<br />
hemiparasite Krameria grayi decreased with a decrease<br />
in cool season precipitation and increased aridity,<br />
respectively.]<br />
Murage, A.W., Obare, G., Chianu, J., Amudavi, D.M.,<br />
Midega, C.A.O., Pickett, J.A. and Khan, Z.R. 2012.The<br />
effectiveness of dissemination pathways on adoption of<br />
"push-pull" technology in western Kenya. Quarterly<br />
Journal of International Agriculture 51(1): 51-71. [A<br />
survey of 491 farmers using Desmodium for control of<br />
Striga hermonthica suggested that field days, farmer<br />
field schools and farmer teachers were effective in<br />
promoting the technique, in that order.]<br />
Murali, M., Puneetha, G.K., Thriveni, M.C., Niranjan, M.H.,<br />
Shivamurthy, G.R., Niranjana, S.R., Prakash, H.S. and<br />
Amruthesh, K.N. 2011. Phytochemical screening and<br />
antioxidant activity of hemi-parasitic Indian mistletoe<br />
Viscum nepalense Sprengel. Journal of Pharmacy<br />
Research 4(10): 3348-3350. [Describing a range of<br />
components found in V. nepalense growing on Cassia<br />
fistula.]<br />
Murray-Hudson, M., Combs, F., Wolski, P. and Brown,<br />
M.T. 2011. A vegetation-based hierarchical<br />
classification for seasonally pulsed floodplains in the<br />
Okavango Delta, Botswana. African Journal of Aquatic<br />
Science 36(3): 223-234. [Noting Cycnium tubulosum<br />
among components of the flora in ‘Seasonal Aquatic<br />
Communities’.]<br />
Nan YaYun, Wang ZongRen, Lu ZiFan, Liu ManLi, Ma<br />
Liang, Li Rui and Ma Jing. 2012. (Expression of<br />
P450arom CYP19 gonadal hormone levels and influence<br />
of the number of spermium in the testis of infertile rats<br />
with kidney-yang deficiency after treated by extractive<br />
of Cuscuta.) (in Chinese) Journal of Liaoning University<br />
of Traditional Chinese Medicine 14(2): 20-25. [Cuscuta<br />
?chinensis useful in treatment of infertility in rats with<br />
kidney-yang deficiency?]<br />
Nautiyal, O.H. 2010. Subcritical carbon dioxide and<br />
conventional extractiontechniques of sandalwood oil: an<br />
industry project. Sandalwood Research Newsletter 25: 5-<br />
7.<br />
Ndambi, B., Cadisch, G., Elzein, A. and Heller, A. 2012.<br />
Tissue specific reactions of sorghum roots to the<br />
mycoherbicide Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. strigae versus<br />
the pathogenic F. proliferatum. Biocontrol Science and<br />
Technology 22(2): 135-150. [Confirming that the safety<br />
of F. oxysporum f. sp. strigae (‘Foxy 2') as a biocontrol<br />
agent against Striga spp. in sorghum is due to its lack of<br />
ability to penetrate and/or spread within the central stele,<br />
associated with enhanced levels of phenolics in the host<br />
tissue, which do not occur with F. proliferatum which<br />
freely penetrates and damages the sorghum.]<br />
Nelson, D.C., Flematti, G.R., Ghisalberti, E.L., Dixon, K.W.<br />
and Smith, S.M. 2012. Regulation of seed germination<br />
and seedling growth by chemical signals from burning<br />
vegetation. Annual Review of Plant Biology 63: 107-<br />
130. [A general review of karrikins, a family of<br />
butenolides that are present in smoke. Karrikins<br />
stimulate seed germination and influence seedling<br />
growth. They are also active in species not normally<br />
associated with fire, and in Arabidopsis they require the<br />
F-box protein MAX2, which also controls responses to<br />
strigolactone hormones. The authors hypothesize that<br />
chemical similarity between karrikins and strigolactones<br />
provided the opportunity for plants to employ a common<br />
signal transduction pathway to respond to both types of<br />
compound.]<br />
Nethathe, B.B. and Ndip, R.N. 2011. Bioactivity of<br />
Hydnora africana on selected bacterial pathogens:<br />
preliminary phytochemical screening. African Journal of<br />
Microbiology Research 5(18): 2820-2826. [Confirming<br />
the presence of alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, saponins<br />
and steroids with potential therapeutic activity in extracts<br />
of H. africana that could justify their traditional use for<br />
treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, and kidney and<br />
bladder complaints.]
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Nhat Hao Tran Le, Malterud, K.E., Diallo, D., Paulsen, B.S.,<br />
Nergård, C.S. and Wangensteen, H. 2012. Bioactive<br />
polyphenols in Ximenia americana and the traditional<br />
use among Malian healers. Journal of<br />
Ethnopharmacology 139(3): 858-862. [A range of<br />
compounds identified which could provide the rationale<br />
for the traditional use of X. americana against throat<br />
infections, amenorrhea, as a tonic, for wound healing and<br />
against pain.]<br />
Nickrent, D.L. 2012. Justification for subspecies in<br />
Arceuthobium campylopodum (Viscaceae). Phytoneuron<br />
51: 1-11. [13 taxa previously considered species in<br />
section Campylopoda were considered ecotypes of A.<br />
campylopodum; these entities are treated<br />
nomenclaturally as subspecies.]<br />
Njunge, J.T. and Mugo, J.M. 2011. Composition and<br />
succession of the woody flora of South Nandi Forest,<br />
Kenya. Research Journal of Botany 6(3): 112-121.<br />
[Observing that Croton megalocarpus currently the most<br />
dominant top canopy species is losing dominance to<br />
other species including Strombosia scheffleri<br />
(Olacaceae).]<br />
Nwaigwe, C.U., Madubunyi, I.I., Udem, S.C. and Nwaigwe,<br />
C.O. 2012. Methanolic root extract of Olax viridis<br />
protects the liver against acetaminophen-induced liver<br />
damage. Journal of Medicinal Plant 6(5): 395-405.<br />
Nwankwo, N.E. and Cemaluk, E.A.C. 2011. Phytochemical<br />
and antimicrobial activity of petroleum ether extract of<br />
the African Mistletoe (Loranthus micranthus Linn)<br />
leaves. International Research Journal of Pharmacy and<br />
Pharmacology 1(9): 211-214. [Showing antimicrobial<br />
activity of extracts of L. micranthus (= Ileostylus<br />
micranthus) parasitic on Kola acuminata in Nsukka,<br />
Eastern Nigeria.]<br />
Oja, T. and Talve, T. 2012. Genetic diversity and<br />
differentiation in six species of the genus Rhinanthus<br />
(Orobanchaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution<br />
298(5): 901-911. [Detailed isozyme studies on R.<br />
rumelicus, R. osiliensis, R. wagneri, R. alectorolophus,<br />
and R. angustifolius from sect. Cleistolemus and R.<br />
minor from sect. Rhinanthus ‘call into question the<br />
monophyly of section Cleistolemus and the taxonomic<br />
position of R. alectorolophus.’]<br />
Omeje, E.O., Osadebe, P.O., Nworu, C.S., Nwodo, J.N.,<br />
Obonga, W.O., Kawamura, A., Esimone, C.O. and<br />
Proksch, P. 2011. A novel sesquiterpene acid and an<br />
alkaloid from leaves of the Eastern Nigeria mistletoe,<br />
Loranthus micranthus with potent immunostimulatory<br />
activity on C57BL6 mice splenocytes and CD69<br />
molecule. Pharmaceutical Biology 49(12): 1271-1276.<br />
[Identifying lupinine and a novel sesquiterpene in<br />
extracts of L. micranthus (= Ileostylus micranthus)<br />
which could be responsible in part, for the<br />
immunostimulatory activities already established for this<br />
Eastern Nigeria species.]<br />
Omoigui, L.O., Ishiyaku, M.F., Ousmane, B., Gowda, B.S.<br />
and Timko, M.P. 2011. Application of fast technology<br />
for analysis (FTA) for sampling and recovery of<br />
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for molecular<br />
characterization of cowpea breeding lines for Striga<br />
resistance. African Journal of Biotechnology 10(85):<br />
19681-19686. [Demonstrating that the application of<br />
marker-assisted selection using FTA technology can<br />
speed up the breeding process and increase the<br />
efficiency of breeding activities.]<br />
Omoigui, L.O., Kamara, A.Y., Ishiyaku, M.F. and Boukar,<br />
O. 2012. Comparative responses of cowpea breeding<br />
lines to Striga and Alectra in the dry savanna of<br />
northeast Nigeria. African Journal of Agricultural<br />
Research 7(5): 747-754. [Confirming resistance of B301,<br />
IT03K-338-1 and IT99K-573-2-1 to both S. gesnerioides<br />
and A. vogelii while IT98K-1092-1 and IT97K-205-8<br />
resisted S. gesnerioides but allowed some attack by A.<br />
vogelii.]<br />
Osadebe, P.O., Abba, C.C. and Agbo, M.O. 2012.<br />
Antimotility effects of extracts and fractions of Eastern<br />
Nigeria mistletoe (Loranthus micranthus Linn). Asian<br />
Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 5(7): 556-560.<br />
[Inhibition in gastrointestinal transit was greater in<br />
extracts of ‘L. micranthus’ (= Ileostylus micranthus)<br />
growing on Pentacletra macrophylla than on 5 other<br />
host trees.]<br />
Padrón Soroa, J.V. 2005. Regional regulated invasive plant<br />
species, an approach to the Cuban list. XVII Congreso<br />
de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Malezas (ALAM) I<br />
Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencia de las Malezas, IV<br />
Congreso Nacional de Ciencia de Malezas, Matanzas,<br />
Cuba, 8 al 11 de noviembre del 2005:17-30. [Listing<br />
regulated invasive weeds for Mexico, Florida U.S.A.,<br />
Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica and Brazil. Striga listed in all,<br />
Orobanche and Cuscuta in all but Brazil, and, for Cuba,<br />
Cassytha spp., Phoradendron robustissimum and<br />
Psittacanthus calyculathus.]<br />
Parada Quintero, M. 2012. (Comparative analysis of seed<br />
rain of Gaiadendron punctatum (Ruiz & Pavón) G. Don<br />
(Loranthaceae) y Ternstroemia meridionalis Mutis ex<br />
L.f. (Theaceae) at Natural Municipal Park Rancheria<br />
(Boyacá), Colombia.) (in Spanish) Acta Biológica<br />
Colombiana 17(1): 159-172. [Recording that G.<br />
punctatum had the higher seed rain of 169/m 2 ]<br />
Park KwanHa and Choi SangHoon. 2012. The effect of<br />
mistletoe, Viscum album coloratum, extract on innate<br />
immune response of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis<br />
niloticus). Fish & Shellfish Immunology 32(6): 1016-<br />
1021. [Suggesting that V. album extract enhances<br />
immunity in tilapia, increasing its resistance to bacterial<br />
infection by A. hydrophila.]<br />
Parker, C. 2012. Parasitic weeds: a world challenge. Weed<br />
Science 60(2): 269-276. [The continuing problems from<br />
Striga, Orobanche, Cuscuta and mistletoes species are<br />
outlined, including their extent, the degrees of damage<br />
caused, and the difficulties in their control. While some<br />
are being successfully controlled by a range of<br />
techniques, others may even be spreading or<br />
intensifying. The challenges they present are<br />
emphasised. (see also Haustorium 59 pp 2-3).]
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Parvathy, M., Anupama, C. and Balasundaran, M. 2011.<br />
Molecular characterization of the differences between<br />
Santalum album L. and its adulterant, Osyris wightiana<br />
Wall. ex Wight using RAPD markers. Journal of Non-<br />
Timber Forest Products 18(2): 91-94. [Successfully<br />
applying RAPD markers to distinguish between S. album<br />
and O. wightiana (Santalaceae).]<br />
Pattanayak, S.P., Mazumder, P.M. and Sunita, P. 2012.<br />
Total phenolic content, flavonoid content and in vitro<br />
antioxidant activities of Dendrophthoe falcata (L.f.)<br />
Ettingsh. Research Journal of Medicinal Plant 6(2): 136-<br />
148. [Results indicate that D. falcata extracts can be a<br />
potential source of natural antioxidant with strong<br />
antiradical capacity.]<br />
Paulino, R.da C., Henriques, G.P.de S.A., Moura, O.N.S.<br />
Coelho, M. de F.II and Azevedo, R.A.B. 2012.<br />
Medicinal plants at the Sítio do Gois, Apodi, Rio Grande<br />
do Norte State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de<br />
Farmacognosia 22(1): 29-39. [Ximenia americana<br />
among the 4 most frequently quoted medicinal plants in<br />
the region.]<br />
Pawar, B.T. 2011. Antifungal activity of some stem extracts<br />
against seed-borne pathogenic fungi. Journal of<br />
Phytology 3(12): 49-51. [Failing to show any anti-fungal<br />
activity from extracts of Santalum album]<br />
Pérez-Gutiérrez, S., Sánchez-Mendoza, E., Martínez-<br />
González, D., Zavala-Sánchez, M.A. and Pérez-<br />
González, C. 2012. Kramecyne - a new antiinflammatory<br />
compound isolated from Krameria<br />
cytisoides. Molecules 1(2): 2049-2057. [Kramecyne<br />
exhibited good anti-inflammatory activity against<br />
oedema in mouse and rat.]<br />
Péron, T., Véronési, C., Mortreau, E., Pouvreau, J.B.,<br />
Thoiron, S., Leduc, N., Delavault, P. and Simier, P.<br />
2012. Role of the sucrose synthase encoding PrSus1<br />
gene in the development of the parasitic plant<br />
Phelipanche ramosa L. (Pomel). Molecular Plant-<br />
Microbe Interactions 25(3): 402-411. [Highlighting the<br />
role of PrSus1 in the utilization of host-derived sucrose<br />
in meristematic areas and in cellulose biosynthesis in P.<br />
aegyptiaca and showing evidence that its activity in<br />
xylem maturation is controlled by host-derived auxin.]<br />
Pervin, M., Paeng, N., Yasui, K., Imai, S., Isemura, M.,<br />
Yokogoshi, H. and Nakayama, T. 2012. Effects of Lens<br />
culinaris agglutinin on gene expression of gluconeogenic<br />
enzymes in the mouse intestine. Journal of the Science of<br />
Food and Agriculture 92(4): 857-861. [Concluding that<br />
lectin from V. album given intragastrically affected<br />
cytokine gene expression in the mouse intestine in such a<br />
way as to increase the risk of colon cancer.]<br />
Petcu, E., Joiţa-Pacureanu, M., Emilia, P., Năstase, D. and<br />
Pricop, S. 2011. (Testing of sunflower hybrids against<br />
new broomrape races (Orobanche cumana Wallr.).) (in<br />
Romanian) Analele Institutului Naţional de Cercetare-<br />
Dezvoltare Agricolă Fundulea 79(1):171-179.<br />
[Reviewing the programme of breeding for sunflower<br />
resistance to O. cumana and reporting the outbreak in<br />
2008 of a virulent race of the parasite in Romania<br />
overcoming all sources of resistance so far.]<br />
Petcu, E. and Pâcureanu, J.M. 2011. Developing drought<br />
and broomrape resistant sunflower germplasm utilizing<br />
wild Helianthus species. Helia 34(54): 1-8. [Describing a<br />
breeding programme involving crosses between<br />
sunflower and the wild species Helianthus argophyllus<br />
and H. maximiliani aimed at developing resistance to<br />
Orobanche cumana and to drought.]<br />
Pieme, C.A., Ngogang, J. and Costache, M. 2012. In vitro<br />
antiproliferative and anti-oxidant activities of methanol<br />
extracts of Urena lobata and Viscum album against<br />
breast cancer cell lines. Toxicological and<br />
Environmental Chemistry 94(5): 987-999. [V. album<br />
extracts demonstrated significant antiproliferative and<br />
antioxidant properties on MB-MDA435 cell lines.]<br />
Piwowarczyk, R. 2012. A revision of distribution and<br />
historical analysis of preferred hosts of Orobanche<br />
ramosa (Orobanchaceae) in Poland. Acta Agrobotanica<br />
65(1): 53-62.<br />
Piwowarczyk, R. 2011. Orobanche mayeri (Suess. &<br />
Ronniger) Bertsch & F. Bertsch - a species new to<br />
Poland. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 80(3):<br />
179-183. [Two new records of O. mayeri reported from<br />
the Pieniny Mts in southern Poland.]<br />
Piwowarczyk, R. 2012. A revision of distribution and the<br />
ecological description of Orobanche picridis<br />
(Orobanchaceae) at the NE limit of its geographical<br />
range from Poland and Ukraine. Acta Agrobotanica<br />
65(1): 91-106. [Reporting two new localities for O.<br />
ramosa in Poland.]<br />
Plakhine, D., Tadmor, Y., Ziadne, H. and Joel, D.M. 2012.<br />
Maternal tissue is involved in stimulant reception by<br />
seeds of the parasitic plant Orobanche. Annals of Botany<br />
109(5): 979-986. [In an elegant experiment the authors<br />
show that the dependence on external chemical<br />
stimulation for seed germination in Orobanche seeds is<br />
genetically controlled. The genetic control is expressed<br />
in a seed tissue with maternal origin (presumably the<br />
perisperm that originates from the nucellus) and genetic<br />
variation for this trait exists in Orobanche species.]<br />
Pouteau, R., Meyer, J.Y., Taputuarai, R. and Stoll, B. 2012.<br />
Support vector machines to map rare and endangered<br />
native plants in Pacific islands forests. Ecological<br />
Informatics 9: 37-46. [Concerning the distribution of<br />
Santalum insulare var. raiateense on the island of<br />
Moorea (French Polynesia, South Pacific).]<br />
Preston, A.L., An Min and Watson, D.M. 2010. Chemical<br />
profile differences in endemic parasitic weeds: a study of<br />
host-parasite chemical profiles in select mistletoe and<br />
eucalypt species. 17th Australasian weeds conference.<br />
In: Zydenbos, S.M. (Ed.) New frontiers in New Zealand:<br />
together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New<br />
Zealand, 26-30 September, 20103: 73-374. [Content of<br />
essential oils in Amyema pendula and A. miquelii<br />
showed little variation across a range of Eucalyptus<br />
hosts. A. quandang yielded no oil, perhaps due to it<br />
being restricted to Acacia hopsts?]
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Pricop, S.M., Cristea, S. and Petcu, E. 2011. Results on the<br />
virulence of the Orobanche cumana Wallr. populations<br />
in Dobrogea, Romania. Romanian Agricultural Research<br />
28: 237-242. [O. cumana is serious in sunflower in SE<br />
Romania and tending to spread to the west, while<br />
virulence is increasing with evidence for races F and G,<br />
and hybrid PR64E71 (race G resistant) also showing<br />
some limited attack. The susceptible variety Performer<br />
shows 37% yield loss.]<br />
Rahmawati, S.I. and Hayashi, N. 2012. The effects of batch<br />
reactor extraction on antioxidant activity from Scurulla<br />
atropurpurea. American Journal of Applied Sciences<br />
9(3): 337-342. [Optimum ‘batch reactor extraction’ from<br />
Scurrula atropurpurea was with 30% ethanol at 100°C<br />
for 10 min. giving better results than a traditional extract<br />
(known as ‘benalu teh’ in Indonesia) in terms of yield,<br />
radical scavenging activities and total phenolics.]<br />
Rai, I.D., Adhikari, B.S., Rawat, G.S. and Kiran Bargali.<br />
2012. Community structure along timberline ecotone in<br />
relation to micro-topography and disturbances in<br />
Western Himalaya. Notulae Scientia Biologicae 4(2): 41-<br />
52. [Noting occurrence of Balanophora involucrata at<br />
the timberline in Uttarakhand, NW India.]<br />
Raka Kamal, Sunita Yadav, Manas Mathur and Pawan<br />
Katariya. 2012. Antiradical efficiency of 20 selected<br />
medicinal plants. Natural Product Research 26(11):<br />
1054-1062. [Including results for Santalum album.]<br />
Ramasamy Harikrishnan, Chellam Balasundaram and Heo<br />
MoonSoo. 2012. Korean mistletoe enriched diet<br />
enhances innate immune response in kelp grouper,<br />
Epinephelus bruneus against Philasterides dicentrarchi.<br />
Veterinary Parasitology 183(1/2) 146-151. [Confirming<br />
that a 1 or 2% supplementation of the diet of the fish E.<br />
bruneus with extract of Viscum album positively<br />
enhances the innate immune response against infection<br />
by the histophagous ciliate P. dicentrarchi.]<br />
Ramírez-Cisneros, M.Á., Rios, M.Y., Déciga-Campos, M.<br />
and Aguilar-Guadarrama, A.B. 2012. Phytochemical<br />
study and anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic and free<br />
radical scavenger evaluations of Krameria pauciflora<br />
methanol extract. Molecules 17(1): 861-872. [Extracts of<br />
K. pauciflora exhibited radical scavenger activity<br />
supporting their traditional use as an anti-inflammatory.<br />
Anti-diabetic effects were less clear-cut.]<br />
Ramsfield, T.D., Shamoun, S.F. and van der Kamp, B.J.<br />
2012. Histopathology of the endophytic system and<br />
aerial shoots of Arceuthobium americanum infected by<br />
Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Botany 90(1): 43-49.<br />
[Failing to confirm that C. gloeosporioides infected the<br />
endophytic system of A. americanum parasitizing P.<br />
contorta var. latifolia, although xylem continuity<br />
between the aerial and endophytic systems was<br />
observed.]<br />
Ransom, J., Kanampiu, F., Gressel, J., de Groote, H.,<br />
Burnet, M. and Odhiambo, G. 2012. Herbicide applied to<br />
imidazolinone resistant-maize seed as a Striga control<br />
option for small-scale African farmers. Weed Science<br />
60(2): 283-289. [Reporting that imazapyr- and<br />
pyrithiobac-coated imidazolinone-resi stant (IR)-<br />
resistant maize seed prior to planting, at rates of 30 to 45<br />
g/ha can provide near season long control of S.<br />
hermonthica and increase maize yields three- to fourfold<br />
under ideal conditions, but may be less successful under<br />
excessively wet or dry conditions. Risk of herbicide<br />
resistance developing in the parasite is discussed. (see<br />
also Haustorium 59 pp 2-3).]<br />
Rawsthorne, J., Watson, D.M. and Roshier, D.A. 2012. The<br />
restricted seed rain of a mistletoe specialist. Journal of<br />
Avian Biology 43(1): 9-14. [Concluding that the<br />
specialist mistletoe bird Dicaeum hirundinaceum<br />
intensifies infestations of Amyema preissii locally but is<br />
not responsible for long-distance dispersal.]<br />
Reinhardt, C.F. and Tesfamichael, N. 2011. Nitrogen in<br />
combination with Desmodium intortum effectively<br />
suppress Striga asiatica in a sorghum-Desmodium<br />
intercropping system. Journal of Agriculture and Rural<br />
Development in the Tropics and Subtropics 112(1): 19-<br />
28. [Apparently publishing results reported by<br />
Tesfamichael at IWSS Congress in Durban in 2004. Pot<br />
experiments confirmed that S. asiatica is suppressed by<br />
D. intortum, yet to be confirmed in the field.]<br />
Ruyter-Spira, C., Bouwmeester, H. 2012. Strigolactones<br />
affect development in primitive plants. The missing link<br />
between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi? New<br />
Phytologist 195(4): 730-733. [A commentary on Delaux<br />
et al. in the same issue – see above]<br />
*Rodrigues, A.G., Colwell, A.E.L., Stefanovic´, S. 2012.<br />
Development and characterization of polymorphic<br />
microsatellite markers for Conopholis americana<br />
(Orobanchaceae). American Journal of Botany 99(1): e4-<br />
e6. (http://www.amjbot.org/content/99/1/e4.long)<br />
[Identifying microsatellite markers of potential use in<br />
obtaining estimates of population-level genetic diversity<br />
and phylogeographic studies of C. americana.]<br />
Rodriguez-Cabal, M. A and Branch, L.C. 2011. Influence of<br />
habitat factors on the distribution and abundance of a<br />
marsupial seed disperser. Journal of Mammalogy 92(6):<br />
1245-1252. [Distribution of the marsupial Dromiciops<br />
gliroides in Patagonia is dictated primarily by the<br />
presence of bamboo, but secondarily by presence of its<br />
important food source, Tristerix corymbosus.]<br />
Roh HyunSik, Park KyeChung and Park ChungGyoo. 2012.<br />
Repellent effect of santalol from sandalwood oil against<br />
Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae). Journal of<br />
Economic Entomology 105(2): 379-385’ [Among 34<br />
essential oils tested for repellency against T. urticae,<br />
only α- santalol and β-santalol, the main components of<br />
oil from unspecified Santalum sp., showed effective<br />
activity, lasting 5 hours.]<br />
Román, B., Die, J.V., Nadal, S. and González-Verdejo, C.I.<br />
2011. Broomrape (Orobanche spp.). In: Perez de la<br />
Vega, M., Torres, A.M., Cubero, J.I. and Kole, C. (eds)<br />
Genetics, genomics and breeding of cool season grain<br />
legumes, pp. 380-406. [Revieweing the progress, or lack<br />
of it, in breeding for resistance to Orobanche spp. and<br />
noting that molecular mapping of Orobanche-resistance
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QTLs together with the development of MAS techniques<br />
are promising approaches to rapidly improving crop<br />
resistance.]<br />
Ronse, A. 2011. Stinsen plants and other deliberate<br />
introductions in the (semi-) natural zones of the Botanic<br />
Garden. In: Hoste, I. (Ed.) The spontaneous flora of the<br />
National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Domein van<br />
Bouchout, Meise), pp. 67-75. [Lathraea clandestina and<br />
Rhinanthus minor among species introduced to the<br />
Botanic Garden.]<br />
Rothe, S.P., Muratkar, G.D. and Kokate, U.R. 2011.<br />
Occurrence and diversity in host by Mistletoes from fire<br />
families in East Melghat Forest. Current Botany 2(9):<br />
19-21. [Recording a range of hosts for Macrosolen<br />
parasitica and Viscum articulatum. Also noting Scurrula<br />
parasitica, V. nepalense and V. articulatum as<br />
hyperparasites on Dendrophthoe falcata.]<br />
Rubiales, D. and Fernández-Aparicio, M. 2012. Innovations<br />
in parasitic weeds management in legume crops. A<br />
review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 32(2):<br />
433-449. [A general review with emphasis on resistant<br />
varieties and herbicides in the control of Orobanche<br />
spp.]<br />
Rubiales, D., Fernández-Aparicio, M. and Sillero, J.C. 2011.<br />
Broomrape. In: Chen, W., Sharma, H.C. and<br />
Muehlbauer, F.J. (eds) Compendium of chickpea and<br />
lentil diseases and pests. American Phytopathological<br />
Society (APS Press), St. Paul, USA: 94-97. [Reviewing<br />
the problems from Orobanche spp. in the two crops, O.<br />
crenata in lentil and winter-sown chickpea, O. foetida in<br />
chickpea in Tunisia, and O. aegyptiaca in both lentil and<br />
spring-sown chickpea. Control depends on integration of<br />
agronomic methods and imidazolinone herbicides.<br />
Varietal resistance not yet fully available in either crop.]<br />
Rubiales, D., Fernández-Aparicio, M. and Sillero, J.C. 2011.<br />
Dodder. In: Chen, W., Sharma, H.C. and Muehlbauer,<br />
F.J. (eds) Compendium of chickpea and lentil diseases<br />
and pests. American Phytopathological Society (APS<br />
Press), St. Paul, USA: 98. [Noting occasional occurrence<br />
of Cuscuta campestris in lentil and chickpea in the<br />
Mediterranean region. Control involves the use of clean<br />
seed, spot spraying with non-selective herbicide,<br />
selective herbicide pendimethalin in either crop; also<br />
pronamide or propyzamide in chickpea.]<br />
Rzedowski, J. and de Calderón Rzedowski, G. 2011.<br />
(Viscaceae.) (in Spanish) Flora del Bajío y de Regiones<br />
Adyacentes, Bulletin 170: 57 pp. [Describing six species<br />
of Arceuthobium (A. abietis-religiosae, A. gillii, A. gillii<br />
ssp. nigrum, A. pendens, A. vaginatum and A. globosum),<br />
and 20 species of Phoradendron (in Mexico).]<br />
Rzedowski, J., & G. Caldero'n de R. 2011. Dos especies<br />
notables de Phoradendron. (Viscaceae) de la Mixteca<br />
Oaxacaquen~a (Me'xico), una nueva y una<br />
complementada. Acta Bot. Mexicana 96: 3-10.<br />
[Phoradendron perredactum is described and is one of<br />
the most remarkable members the genus owing to its<br />
isophasic development on Bursera. The description of P.<br />
olae Kuijt is complemented with data on hosts and male<br />
plants.]<br />
Rzymowska, Z. and Skrajna, T. 2011. Associations and<br />
communities of cereal crops of the Łuków Plain Part I.<br />
Light soil associations. Acta Agrobotanica 64(4) 243-<br />
250. [Noting the occurrence of Rhinanthus serotinus in<br />
cereals on light soils in this region of Poland.]<br />
Sangüesa-Barreda, G., Linares, J.C. and Camarero, J.J.<br />
2012. Mistletoe effects on Scots pine decline following<br />
drought events: insights from within-tree spatial patterns,<br />
growth and carbohydrates. Tree Physiology 32(5): 585-<br />
598. [Concluding that Viscum album causes growth<br />
decline and increases the sensitivity of Pinus sylvestris<br />
to drought stress (in Spain).]<br />
Santiago, L.S., Wright, S.J., Harms, K.E., Yavitt, J.B.,<br />
Korine, C., Garcia, M.N. and Turner, B.L. 2012.<br />
Tropical tree seedling growth responses to nitrogen,<br />
phosphorus and potassium addition. Journal of Ecology<br />
(Oxford) 100(2): 309-316. [Heisteria concinna<br />
(Olacaceae) among 5 species showing benefit from<br />
fertilization, especially K, in deep-shade forest in<br />
Panama.]<br />
Sárpataki, O., Sevastre, B., Olah, N.K., Hanganu, D.,<br />
Taulescu, M., Mănălăchioae, R., Cătoi, C. and Marcus, I.<br />
2011. Antitumor effects of Viscum album L. on Ehrlich<br />
ascites carcinoma in vivo. Bulletin of University of<br />
Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-<br />
Napoca. Veterinary Medicine 68,(1): 320-327. [Extracts<br />
of V. album showed anti-proliferative effects on Ehrlich<br />
Ascites Carcinoma in mice.]<br />
Satish, K., Gutema, Z., Grenier, C., Rich, P.J. and Ejeta, G.<br />
2012. Molecular tagging and validation of microsatellite<br />
markers linked to the low germination stimulant gene<br />
(lgs) for Striga resistance in sorghum [Sorghum bicolor<br />
(L.) Moench]. TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics<br />
124(6): 989-1003. [In a mapping study, the sorghum low<br />
germination stimulation locus was fine-mapped. This<br />
yields new, more reliable markers for marker-assisted<br />
selection of low germination inducing germplasm. With<br />
the sorghum genome sequence at hand a list of candidate<br />
genes for this trait could also be drafted.]<br />
Satish Patel, Vikas Sharma, Chauhan, N.S. and Dixit, V.K.<br />
2012. An updated review on the parasitic herb of<br />
Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. Journal of Chinese Integrative<br />
Medicine 10(3): 249-255. [Reviewing the literature on<br />
pharmacognosy, phytochemistry and traditional and<br />
biological medicinal uses of C. reflexa.]<br />
Scarpa, G.F. and Montani, M.C. 2011. Medical ethnobotany<br />
of "ligas" (Loranthaceae sensu lato) among indigenous<br />
and criollo people of Argentina. Dominguezia 27(2): 5-<br />
19. [Recording traditional medical uses of 8 species of<br />
Loranthaceae (s.l.), most relating to Struthanthus<br />
uraguensis, Tripodanthus acutifolius, Phoradendron<br />
bathyoryctum, and Ligaria cuneifolia. Suggesting further<br />
studies on S. uranguaensis.]<br />
Schapowal, A. 2011. Phytotherapy of conjunctivitis.<br />
Zeitschrift für Phytotherapie 32(6): 255-259. [Including
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Euphrasia (unspecified) among species that have proved<br />
valuable in treating conjunctivitis.]<br />
Schmidt, H.U. 2010. (Might the mistletoe (Viscum album<br />
spp. album) be a problem (not only) for the deciduous<br />
trees of the city of Berlin?) (in German) Julius-Kühn-<br />
Archiv 428: 362-363. [Discussing the possible reasons<br />
for increased incidence of V. album on a range of trees in<br />
Berlin, the difficulties of mechanical control, and<br />
suggesting the planting of trees which would be less<br />
susceptible.]<br />
Schuh, R.T. and Menard, K. 2011. Santalalean-feeding plant<br />
bugs: ten new species in the genus Hypseloecus Reuter<br />
from Australia and South Africa (Heteroptera: Miridae:<br />
Phylinae): their hosts and placement in the Pilophorini.<br />
Australian Journal of Entomology 50(4): 365-392.<br />
[Describing 8 new species of Hypseloecus from<br />
Australia and two from South Africa, documented as<br />
using species of Amyema, Dendrophthoe and Lysiana in<br />
Australia and Viscum and Tapinanthus in South Africa.]<br />
Seegmüller, S. 2012. (Scots pine mistletoe viscotoxin 1-PSregional<br />
comparison and ecophysiological hints.) (in<br />
German) Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung 183(1/2):<br />
33-43. [The concentration of viscotoxin in Viscum album<br />
ssp. austriacum on Pinus sylvestris across a range of<br />
sites in Germany and Switzerland varied widely with soil<br />
and climatic factors, being negatively correlated to host<br />
leaf nitrogen and sulfur status and highest under drought<br />
or irradiance stress.]<br />
Sȩkeroğlu, N., Koca, U. and Meraler, S.A. 2012. (A<br />
traditional folk medicine: IKSUT.) (in Turkish) Yüzüncü<br />
Yil Üniversitesi Journal of Agricultural Sciences 22(1):<br />
56-61. [Identifying the main component of ‘IKSUT’,<br />
used traditionally in one part of Turkey for treatment of<br />
liver disease, and infant and mothers' physiological<br />
hepatitis, as a Cuscuta sp.]<br />
Sȩkeroğlu, Z.A. and Sȩkeroğlu, V. 2012. Effects of Viscum<br />
album L. extract and quercetin on methotrexate-induced<br />
cyto-genotoxicity in mouse bone-marrow cells. Mutation<br />
Research, Genetic Toxicology and Environmental<br />
Mutagenesis 746(1): 56-59. [Suggesting that V. album<br />
extract may play a role in reducing cyto-genotoxicity<br />
induced by anti-neoplastic drugs during cancer<br />
chemotherapy.]<br />
Semerci̇, A., Kaya, Y., Sahiṅ, I. and Ciṫak, N. 2010.<br />
Determination of the performances and adoption levels<br />
of sunflower 33(53): 69-76. [Comparing the<br />
performance of sunflower varieties resistant to<br />
Orobanche cumana and those resistant to imidazolinone<br />
herbicide in Thrace, Turkey and concluding that highest<br />
and most economical yields are obtained with genetic<br />
resistance to the parasite.]<br />
Seregin, A.P. 2011. (Pedicularis palustris and P. sceptrumcarolinum<br />
(Orobanchaceae) in Vladimir Region and<br />
Middle Russia: dynamics and causes of extinction.) (in<br />
Russian) Botanicheskiĭ Zhurnal 96(12) 1561-1574. [The<br />
rapid decrease of P. palustris and P. sceptrum-carolinum<br />
over the past century is attributed to poor seed<br />
regeneration, genetic isolation of fragmented<br />
populations, change of land use, eutrophication, etc.]<br />
Sevastre, B., Olah, N.K., Hanganu, D., Sárpataki, O.,<br />
Taulescu, M., Mănălăchioae, R., Marcus, I. and Cătoi, C.<br />
2012. Viscum album L. alcoholic extract enhance the<br />
effect of doxorubicin in Ehrlich carcinoma tumor cells.<br />
Romanian Biotechnological Letters 17(1): 6975-6981.<br />
Sharma Sakshy, Hullatti, K.K., Sachin Kumar and Tiwari,<br />
B.K. 2012. Comparative antioxidant activity of Cuscuta<br />
reflexa and Cassytha filiformis. Journal of Pharmacy<br />
Research 5(1): 441-443. [Showing greater anti-oxidant<br />
activity in C. reflexa than in C. filiformis.]<br />
Shave, P.A., Ter-Rumum, A. and Enoch, M.I. 2012. Effects<br />
of time of intercropping of mucuna (Mucuna<br />
cochinchinensis) in maize (Zea mays) for weed and soil<br />
fertility management. International Journal of<br />
Agriculture and Biology 14(3): 469-472. [Field trials in<br />
Nigeria showed that intercropping of Mucuna reduced<br />
the density of weeds (including Striga hermonthica?) by<br />
52% and 16% when introduced at 6 and 9 weeks after<br />
planting without significantly affecting the yield of<br />
maize.]<br />
Sillero, J.C., Rojas-Molina, M.M., Avila, C.M. and<br />
Rubiales, D. 2012. Induction of systemic acquired<br />
resistance against rust, ascochyta blight and broomrape<br />
in faba bean by exogenous application of salicylic acid<br />
and benzothiadiazole. Crop Protection 34: 65-69.<br />
[Confirming the suppression of Orobanche crenata on<br />
faba bean by SA and BTH, but mainly exploring their<br />
effect on fungal diseases.]<br />
Simard, S.W., Beiler, K.J., Bingham, M.A., Deslippe, J.R.,<br />
Philip, L.J. and Teste, F.P. 2012. Mycorrhizal networks:<br />
mechanisms, ecology and modelling. Fungal Biology<br />
Reviews 26(1): 39-60. [A detailed review including<br />
discussion of the types, amounts and mechanisms of<br />
interplant material transfer in autotrophic,<br />
mycoheterotrophic or partial mycoheterotrophic plants,<br />
with particular focus on carbon transfer.]<br />
Soliman, M.M., Abdallah, N.G., Bakheit, M.A., Raslan,<br />
M.A. and Abd-El-Haleem, S.H.M. 2012. Directional<br />
selection in faba bean (Vicia faba L.) under infestation<br />
of Orobanche crenata. World Applied Sciences Journal<br />
16(8): 1074-1081. [Reporting good results from a<br />
breeding programme in Egypt involving the cultivar<br />
Giza-843 which effectively shared in transmitting its<br />
properties of high yield and high resistance to O.<br />
crenata.]<br />
Start, A.N. 2011. Some observations on an urban mistletoe<br />
Dendrophthoe pentandra (L.) Miq. (Loranthaceae) in<br />
Thailand. Natural History Buletin of the Siam Society<br />
57: 81-86. [In a survey of urban trees in Central and<br />
N.Thailand D. pentandra was recorded on hosts from 24<br />
families, 40 genera and more than 40 species; Common<br />
hosts included Mangifera indica, Casuarina<br />
equisetifolia, Tectona grandis and several species of<br />
Lagerstroemia.].
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Štech, M. 2012. Changes of seasonal characters in<br />
populations of Melampyrum sylvaticum along an<br />
altitudinal gradient. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-<br />
Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich 148/149: 137-<br />
144. [A study in Czeck Republic concludes that seasonal<br />
characters are not sufficiently reliable to be the basis for<br />
sub-specific taxa.]<br />
Steers, R.J. and Allen, E.B. 2011. Fire effects on perennial<br />
vegetation in the Western Colorado Desert, USA. Fire<br />
Ecology 7(3): 59-74. [Krameria grayi among species<br />
failing to recover after fire in creosote bush vegetation.]<br />
Su HueiJiun, Murata, J. and Hu JerMing. 2012. Morphology<br />
and phylogenetics of two holoparasitic plants,<br />
Balanophora japonica and Balanophora yakushimensis<br />
(Balanophoraceae), and their hosts in Taiwan and Japan.<br />
Journal of Plant Research 125(3): 317-326. [Refining the<br />
distinctions between B. japonica, B. yakushimensis, and<br />
B. laxiflora which form a well-supported clade within<br />
Balanophora. Also confirming that B. japonica<br />
parasitizes Symplocos spp., while B. yakushimensis<br />
parasitizes Distylium racemosum in Japan and Schima<br />
superba in Taiwan.]<br />
Sultan, A., Johnston, P.R., Park, D. and Robertson, A.W.<br />
2011. Two new pathogenic ascomycetes in Guignardia<br />
and Rosenscheldiella on New Zealand's pygmy<br />
mistletoes (Korthalsella: Viscaceae). Studies in<br />
Mycology 68: 237-247. [G. korthalsellae and R.<br />
korthalsellae are described from Korthalsella<br />
salicornioides, K. clavata and K. lindsayi. R.<br />
korthalsellae is a member of the Mycosphaerellaceae<br />
s.s.]<br />
Sun ZhiYing, Song JingYuan, Yao Hui and Han JianPing.<br />
2012. Molecular identification of Cistanches Herba and<br />
its adulterants based on nrITS2 sequence. Journal of<br />
Medicinal Plants Research 6(6): 1041-1045. [Confirming<br />
that ITS2 can be used as a DNA barcode to distinguish<br />
‘genuine’ ‘Cistanches Herba’ (based on Cistanche<br />
deserticola and C. tubulosa) from possible adulterants<br />
including C. salsa, C. sinensis Orobanche pycnostachya,<br />
O. coerulescens, Boschniakia rossica, and Cynomorium<br />
songaricum.]<br />
Sundararaj, R. and Gaurav Sharma. 2010. Studies on the<br />
floral composition in the six selected provenances of<br />
sandal (Santalum album Linnaeus) of south India.<br />
Biological Forum 2(2): 73-77. [Recording 76 spp. of<br />
various families associated with S. album.]<br />
Sunita Shailajan, Sasikumar Menon and Harshvardhan<br />
Joshi. 2011. Microwave-assisted extraction of lupeol<br />
from Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. growing on different hosts<br />
and its quantitation by high-performance thin layer<br />
chromatography. International Journal of Green<br />
Pharmacy 5(3): 212-215. [The method is a good<br />
alternative to conventional extraction techniques.]<br />
Surya, N.W., Idris, M., Wong, K.M., Leong-Škorničková, J.,<br />
Lee, S. and Low, Y.W. 2011. A preliminary study on in<br />
vitro seed germination and rooted callus formation of<br />
Tetrastigma rafflesiae (Vitaceae). Gardens' Bulletin<br />
(Singapore) 63(1/2): 499-505. [Reporting successful<br />
culture of T. rafflesiae as part of a programme for<br />
conservation of Rafflesia spp. in Indonesia.]<br />
Tag, H., Kalita, P., Dwivedi, P., Das, A.K. and Namsa, N.D.<br />
2012. Herbal medicines used in the treatment of diabetes<br />
mellitus in Arunachal Himalaya, northeast, India.<br />
Journal of Ethnopharmacology 141(3): 786-795.<br />
[Cuscuta reflexa among 11 species reported to have antidiabetic<br />
activity.]<br />
Tamla, H.T., Cornelius, J.P. and Page, T. 2012.<br />
Reproductive biology of three commercially valuable<br />
Santalum species: development of flowers and<br />
inflorescences, breeding systems, and interspecific<br />
crossability. Euphytica 184(3): 323-333. [Studies<br />
involving S. lanceolatum, S. album and S.<br />
austrocaledonicum confirmed that although normally<br />
geographically separated, hybridisation between them<br />
can occur, suggesting potential for use of interspecific<br />
hybridization in genetic improvement.]<br />
Tan, A.S. 2010. Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)<br />
researches in the Aegean Region of Turkey. Helia<br />
33(53): 77-84. [Reviewing research in Turkey, including<br />
work on resistance to Orobanche cumana.]<br />
Terzic´, S., Dedic´, B., Atlagic´, J., Jocic´, S. and Tančic´, S.<br />
2010. Screening wild sunflower species and F 1<br />
interspecific hybrids for resistance to broomrape. Helia<br />
33(53): 25-30. [Recording the discovery in Serbia of<br />
new potential sources of resistance to Orobanche<br />
cumana in wild Helianthus species and their<br />
interspecific hybrids.]<br />
Tibe, O., Pernthaner, A., Sutherland, I., Lesperance, L. and<br />
Harding, D.R.K. 2012. Condensed tannins from<br />
Botswanan forage plants are effective priming agents of<br />
γδ T cells in ruminants. Veterinary Immunology and<br />
Immunopathology 146(3/40: 237-244. [Extracts from<br />
Tapinanthus oleifolius showed moderate activity while<br />
effects of Viscum rotundifolium and V. verrucosum were<br />
minimal.],<br />
Timko, M.P., Huang, K. and Lis, K.E. 2012. Host resistance<br />
and parasite virulence in Striga-host plant interactions: a<br />
shifting balance of power. Weed Science 60(2): 307-315.<br />
[‘The recent cloning and functional characterization of a<br />
race-specific R gene from cowpea encoding a canonical<br />
coiled-coil (CC)-nucleotide binding site (NBS)-leucinerich<br />
repeat (LRR) type R-protein opens the door for<br />
further exploration of the mechanism of host resistance<br />
to S. gesnerioides in cowpea, and provides a focal point<br />
for studies aimed at uncovering the molecular and<br />
genetic factors underlying parasite virulence and host<br />
selection.’ (see also Haustorium 59 pp 2-3).]<br />
Toh, S., Kamiya, Y., Kawakami, N., Nambara, E., McCourt,<br />
P. and Tsuchiya, Y. 2012. Thermoinhibition uncovers a<br />
role for strigolactones in Arabidopsis seed germination.<br />
Plant and Cell Physiology 53(1): 107-117. [High<br />
temperatures can inhibit germination in Arabidopsis.<br />
Strigolactone biosynthetic and signaling mutants in<br />
Arabidopsis showed increased sensitivity to this socalled<br />
thermo-inhibition. The synthetic strigolactone<br />
GR24 rescued germination of thermo-inbibited
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biosynthetic mutant seeds but not of a signaling mutant.<br />
Hormone analysis revealed that strigolactones alleviate<br />
thermo-inhibition by modulating levels of the two plant<br />
hormones, GA and ABA. Hormone analysis in<br />
germinating Striga hermonthica seeds suggests a<br />
common mechanism of hormonal regulation of<br />
germination in the parasitic and non-parasitic seeds.]<br />
Torres, A.M., Avila, C.M., Stoddard, F.L., Cubero, J.I.,<br />
2011. Faba bean. In: Perez de la Vega, M., Torres, A.M.,<br />
Cubero, J.I. and Kole, C. (eds) Genetics, genomics and<br />
breeding of cool season grain legumes, pp. 50-97.<br />
[Including reference to the continuing need for the<br />
development of resistance to Orobanche crenata.]<br />
Ukwueze, S.E. and Osadebe, P.O. 2012. Determination of<br />
anti-fungal properties of the African mistletoe species:<br />
Loranthus micranthus L. International Journal of Pharma<br />
and Bio Sciences 3(1): P-454-P-458. [Concluding that<br />
the folkloric use of L. micranthus (= Ileostylus<br />
micranthus) extracts in the treatment of fungal infections<br />
in Nigeria may not be scientifically founded.]<br />
*U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2010 Draft Recovery Plan<br />
for Tidal Marsh Ecosystems of Northern and Central<br />
California. 377 pp.<br />
http://ecos.fws.gov/docs/recovery_plan/TMRP/Chapter<br />
%20II%20Species%20Accounts.pdf [Including a section<br />
on the endangered Cordylanthus maritimus ssp.<br />
maritimus (Orobanchaceae) with detailed information on<br />
taxonomy, ecology, distribution etc. and factors<br />
threatening its survival. Hosts not identified but it is<br />
associated with Sarcocornia pacifica, Distichlis spicata,<br />
Frankenia salina, Limonium californicum and<br />
occasionally Cuscuta salina.]<br />
Varga, I., Keresztes, B. and Poczai, P. 2012. (Data to the<br />
Hungarian insect fauna of European mistletoe (Viscum<br />
album).) (in Hungarian) Növényvédelem 48(4): 153-164.<br />
[Identifying 22 insect species on V. album, of which<br />
Cacopsylla visci, Carulaspis visci, Hypseloecus visci,<br />
Pinalitus viscicola, Ixapion variegatum, Liparthrum<br />
bartschti, Synanthedon loranthi and Celypha woodiana<br />
are restricted to it. Those with some potential for<br />
biocontrol are the psyllid (Caco. visi), the mistletoe scale<br />
(Caru. visci), the mistletoe bug, H. visci, the clearwing<br />
moth, S. loranthi and the bark beetle, L. bartschti.]<br />
Varga, I., Taller, J., Baltazár, T., Hyvönen, J. and Poczai, P.<br />
2012. Leaf-spot disease on European mistletoe (Viscum<br />
album) caused by Phaeobotryosphaeria visci: a potential<br />
candidate for biological control. Biotechnology Letters<br />
34(6): 1059-1065. [P. visci can completely destroy V.<br />
album by infecting its branches, leaves and berries (in<br />
Hungary).]<br />
Velasco, L., Pérez-Vich, B., Yassein, A.A.M., Jan<br />
ChaoChien, Fernández-Martínez, J.M. 2012. Inheritance<br />
of resistance to sunflower broomrape (Orobanche<br />
cumana Wallr.) in an interspecific cross between<br />
Helianthus annuus and Helianthus debilis subsp.<br />
tardiflorus. Plant Breeding 131(1): 220-221.<br />
[Establishing that resistance to O. cumana race G in H.<br />
debilis ssp. tardiflorus is controlled by dominant alleles<br />
at a single locus.]<br />
Vicas, S.I., Rugina, D., Sconta, Z., Pintea, A. and Socaciu,<br />
C. 2011. The in vitro antioxidant and anti-proliferative<br />
effect and induction of phase II enzymes by a mistletoe<br />
(Viscum album) extract. Bulletin of University of<br />
Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-<br />
Napoca. Agriculture 68(2): 482-491. [Extracts of V.<br />
album growing on apple show inhibition of adherent<br />
epithelial human ovarian tumor cells A2780<br />
proliferation, and general anti-oxidant properties.]<br />
Vurro, M. and Yoneyama, K. 2012. Strigolactones -<br />
intriguing biologically active compounds: perspectives<br />
for deciphering their biological role and for proposing<br />
practical application. Pest Management Science 68(5):<br />
664-668. [A review with emphasis on the potential for<br />
exploiting better understanding of the role of<br />
strigolactones towards control of parasitic weeds.]<br />
Wan Jing, Xu Jun, Yang MingYan, Yang ZhenDe, Huang<br />
QingHe and Zhao ShuFang. 2012. (Effects of three plant<br />
extracts on growth and development of dodder and<br />
soybean and on protective enzymes of host.) (in<br />
Chinese) Genomics and Applied Biology 31(1): 63-69.<br />
[Describing apparently non-selective damage from<br />
extracts of Melia azedarach, Eucalyptus robusta and<br />
Sapium sebiferum on both Cuscuta chinensis and<br />
soyabean.]<br />
Wang Jing, Pu XiaoPeng, Cao ZhiZhong, Cao WenXia,<br />
Feng Xiao, Duan MingXuan and Qiu ZhiHe. 2011.<br />
(Study on grassland type and productivity of Tanzi<br />
pasture in Danchang County.) (in Chinese) Pratacultural<br />
Science 28(3): 420-425. [One of the grassland types – a<br />
‘sedge group’ - described from Gansu Province, China,<br />
includes Pedicularis spp.]<br />
Wang ZhengHui, Wu BaoJun, Zhang XiangHong, Xu Min,<br />
Chang HuiMin, Lu XiaoYun and Ren XiaoYong. 2012.<br />
Purification of a polysaccharide from Boschniakia<br />
rossica and its synergistic antitumor effect combined<br />
with 5-fluorouracil. Carbohydrate Polymers 89(1): 31-<br />
35. [Results showed that the polysaccharide from B.<br />
rossica combined with 5-fluorouracil had synergistic<br />
effects on antitumour activity in tumour bearing mice.]<br />
Waters, M.T., Nelson, D.C., Scaffidi, A., Flematti, G.R.,<br />
Sun, Y.M.K., Dixon, K.W. and Smith, S.M. 2012.<br />
Specialisation within the DWARF14 protein family<br />
confers distinct responses to karrikins and strigolactones<br />
in Arabidopsis. Development (Cambridge) 139(7): 1285-<br />
1295. [The Arabidopsis DWARF14 orthologue, AtD14,<br />
is – just as in rice - necessary for strigolactone response<br />
while the AtD14 paralogue KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE<br />
2 (KAI2) is specifically required for responses to<br />
karrikins, and not to strigolactones. The expression<br />
patterns of AtD14 and KAI2 are consistent with the<br />
capacity to respond to either strigolactones or karrikins<br />
at different stages of plant development. They propose<br />
that AtD14 and KAI2 are necessary for the separate<br />
regulation of karrikin and strigolactone signalling by<br />
MAX2.]
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Wedlich, K.V., Rintoul, N., Peacock, S., Cape, J.N., Coyle,<br />
M., Toet, S., Barnes, J. and Ashmore, M. 2012. Effects<br />
of ozone on species composition in an upland grassland.<br />
Oecologia 168(4): 1137-1146. [Elevated ozone<br />
significantly decreased Rhinanthus minor]<br />
Wester, P. 2011. Nectar feeding by the Cape rock elephantshrew<br />
Elephantulus edwardii (Macroscelidea) - a<br />
primarily insectivorous mammal pollinates the parasite<br />
Hyobanche atropurpurea (Orobanchaceae). Flora (Jena)<br />
206(12): 997-1001. [Observed in Western Cape, South<br />
Africa.]<br />
Weston, K.A., Chapman, H.M., Kelly, D. and Moltchanova,<br />
E.V. 2012. Dependence on sunbird pollination for fruit<br />
set in three West African montane mistletoe species.<br />
Journal of Tropical Ecology 28(2): 205-213.<br />
[Globimetula braunii, Agelanthus brunneus and A.<br />
djurensis in Nigeria, are self-compatible but are<br />
normally pollinated by four species of sunbird<br />
(Cyanomitris spp., Cinnyris spp.) and a small social<br />
wasp.]<br />
Westwood, J.H., de Pamphilis, C.W., Das, M., Fernández-<br />
Aparicio, M., Honaas, L.A., Timko, M.P., Wafula, E.K.,<br />
Wickett, N.J. and Yoder, J.I. 2012. The Parasitic Plant<br />
Genome Project: new tools for understanding the<br />
biology of Orobanche and Striga. Weed Science 60(2):<br />
295-306. [The Project is sequencing transcripts from<br />
Triphysaria versicolor, Striga hermonthica, Orobanche<br />
aegyptiaca and the related but non-parasitic<br />
Lindenbergia philippensis and is expected to provide<br />
abundant molecular markers for understanding<br />
population dynamics, the biology of parasitism, parasite<br />
virulence, host resistance mechanisms, target sites for<br />
herbicide action and possibilities for trans-specific gene<br />
silencing (see also Haustorium 59 pp 2-3).]<br />
Wiens, D. and Calvin, C.L. 2011. Two epiparasitic species<br />
of Phoradendron (Viscaceae) from Honduras: one new<br />
and for the other a range extension and host<br />
determination. Aliso 29(2): 119-123. [Describing the<br />
new species, Phoradendron mathiasenii, growing as a<br />
hyper-parasite on Psittacanthus angustifolius. Ph.<br />
tikalense is also recorded from one site in Honduras,<br />
again hyper-parasitic on Ps. angustifolius.]<br />
Wong ZinHua, Habsah Abdul Kadir and Ling SuiKiong.<br />
2012. Bioassay-guided isolation of neuroprotective<br />
compounds from Loranthus parasiticus against H 2 O 2 -<br />
induced oxidative damage in NG108-15 cells. Journal of<br />
Ethnopharmacology 139(1): 256-264. [L. parasiticus (=<br />
Scurrula parasitica) is used traditionally in China for<br />
treatment of schizophrenia, bone, brain, kidney, liver<br />
complaints and to treat ‘wind-damp’, and prevent<br />
miscarriage. Results of the study support the use of L.<br />
parasiticus in the treatment of neurological disorders<br />
where oxidative stress is implicated, thanks to the<br />
presence of proanthocyanidins.]<br />
Wright, M.A.R., Ianni, M.D. and Costea, M. 2012. Diversity<br />
and evolution of pollen-ovule production in Cuscuta<br />
(dodders, Convolvulaceae) in relation to floral<br />
morphology. Plant Systematics and Evolution 298(2):<br />
369-389. [The authors surveyed 128 species in each of<br />
the three subgenera looking at the ratio of pollen to<br />
ovules. While four ovules are present in the flowers of<br />
each species, the relationship of pollen to ovules varied<br />
widely among species. Outcrossing seems to be the rule<br />
with no species with established selfing.]<br />
Xie An, Li ShiWei, Li Long and Kuang Ling. 2011. (Effects<br />
of Cistanche and Epimedium on development of early<br />
mouse embryo.) (in Chinese) Acta Agriculturae<br />
Universitatis Jiangxiensis 33(5]: 955-959. [Some<br />
benefits reported.]<br />
Xiaojin, L., Daping, X., Zengjiang, Y., Ningnan, Z. and<br />
Lijun, Y. 2011. Preliminary analysis of growth and oil<br />
composition from a 6-year-old sandal (Santalum album<br />
L.) plantation in Gaoyao, Guangdong, south China.<br />
Sandalwood Research Newsletter 26, 1-5.<br />
Xu Rong, Chen Jun, Zhou Feng, Yu Jing and Liu TongNing.<br />
2011. (Study on rapid determination technique of<br />
Cistanche deserticola seed viability.) (in Chinese) Seed<br />
30(5): 24-28. [Defining the optimum technique for<br />
determining seed viability in C. deserticola as pH 6.4<br />
and TTC solution concentration of 0.3-1.0%, at 38°C.]<br />
Yagi, S., Chrétien, F., Duval, R.E., Fontanay, S., Maldini,<br />
M., Piacente, S., Henry, M., Chapleur, Y. and Laurain-<br />
Mattar, D. 2012. Antibacterial activity, cytotoxicity and<br />
chemical constituents of Hydnora johannis roots. South<br />
African Journal of Botany 78: 228-234. [In Sudan, the<br />
roots of H. johannis are traditionally used for the<br />
treatment of dysentery, diarrhoea, cholera and swelling<br />
tonsillitis, but the work reported here does not fully<br />
support these uses and suggests much more study<br />
needed.]<br />
Yamato, M., Yagame, T., Shimomura, N., Iwase, K.,<br />
Takahashi, H., Ogura-Tsujita, Y. and Yukawa, T. 2011.<br />
Specific arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with<br />
non-photosynthetic Petrosavia sakuraii<br />
(Petrosaviaceae). Mycorrhiza 21(7): 631-639. [Studies<br />
on P. sakuraii associated with Japanese cypress<br />
(Chamaecyparis obtuse) in Honshu, Japan, indicate that<br />
particular AM fungi are selected by P. sakuraii from<br />
diverse indigenous AM fungi. The same AM fungi can<br />
colonize both plant species, and photosynthates of C.<br />
obtusa may be supplied to P. sakuraii through a shared<br />
AM fungal mycelial network.]<br />
Yang BeiFen and Li JunMin. 2012. Effect of parasitic plant<br />
Cuscuta australis R. Br. on growth of three invasive<br />
plants. Journal of Zhejiang University (Agriculture and<br />
Life Sciences) 38(2): 127-131. [Measuring the effects of<br />
Cuscuta australis on a range of parameters of Erigeron<br />
annuus, Chenopodium ambrosioides and Bidens pilosa.<br />
Total biomass reduced by 47, 82 and 65% respectively<br />
and root:shoot ratio increased in all.]<br />
Yang YongSheng, Ma ChunJie, Lei Li, Dong Ping and Li<br />
JianMing. 2012. (Effects of Cynomorium songaricum<br />
polysaccharide on experimental gastric ulcer in rats by<br />
acetic acid.) (in Chinese) Chinese Archives of<br />
Traditional Chinese Medicine 30(2): 385-387.
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[Confirming that polysaccharide from C. songaricum has<br />
anti-ulcer effect in rats.]<br />
Yoneyama, K., Xie XiaoNan, Kim HyunIl, Kisugi, T.,<br />
Nomura, T., Sekimoto, H., Yokota, T. and Yoneyama,<br />
K. 2012. How do nitrogen and phosphorus deficiencies<br />
affect strigolactone production and exudation? Planta<br />
235(6): 1197-1207. [A detailed discussion on the varied<br />
responses of a range of crops to N and P deficiencies in<br />
promoting strigolactone exudation. Confirming that in<br />
general, P deficiency promotes strigolactone exudation<br />
in all species while N deficiency promotes exudation<br />
only in non-legumes (as legumes acquire N without AM<br />
fungi). And proposing explanations for the anomalous<br />
behaviour of tomato in which only P deficiency<br />
promotes exudation. Distinct reductions in shoot P levels<br />
were observed in the plants grown under N deficiency,<br />
except for tomato, in which shoot P level was increased<br />
by N starvation, suggesting that the P status of the shoot<br />
regulates SL exudation.]<br />
Yoneyama, K., Xie XiaoNan, Kisugi, T., Nomura, T.,<br />
Sekimoto, H., Yokota, T. and Yoneyama, K. 2011.<br />
Characterization of strigolactones exuded by Asteraceae<br />
plants. Plant Growth Regulation 65(3): 495-504.<br />
[Orobanchyl acetate and orobanchol were detected in<br />
root exudates from most of the 13 Asteraceae studied. 5-<br />
deoxystrigol and 7-hydroxyorobanchyl acetate were also<br />
detected in several.]<br />
Yu WenBin, Li DeZhu and Wang Hong .2012. Highly<br />
efficient pollination by bumblebees ensures seed<br />
production in Pedicularis lachnoglossa<br />
(Orobanchaceae), an early-flowering Himalayan plant.<br />
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 50(3): 218-226.<br />
[Involving Bombus friseanus and B. yunnanicola.]<br />
Zhang LinQi and Sun Wei. 2011 Treatment of chronic<br />
kidney disease with tonifying the kidney and promoting<br />
blood circulation and clearing away the damp-heat by<br />
professor SUN Wei. China Journal of Traditional<br />
Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy 26(12): 2900-2902.<br />
[Including reference to use of unspecified Scurrula and<br />
Cuscuta spp.]<br />
Zhang QiuHong, Wang WenBiao, Li Jin, Chang YanXu,<br />
Wang YueFei, Zhang JiShu, Zhang BoLi and Gao<br />
XiuMei. 2012. Simultaneous determination of catechin,<br />
epicatechin and epicatechin gallate in rat plasma by LC-<br />
ESI-MS/MS for pharmacokinetic studies after oral<br />
administration of Cynomorium songaricum extract.<br />
Journal of Chromatography, B 880: 168-171.<br />
Zhang RenBo and Dou QuanLi. 2011. GC-MS analysis on<br />
volatile components in mucilage from Christisonia<br />
hookeri. Medicinal Plant 2(10): 35-36. [Mucilage from<br />
between calyx and corolla of C. hookeri contained<br />
potentially useful volatiles 2-(2-butoxyethoxy) ethanol<br />
and methyl n-butyl sulfoxide, but mainly<br />
polysaccharides.]<br />
Zhang XinHua, da Silva, A.T., Duan Jun, Deng RuFang, Xu<br />
XinLan and Ma GuoHua. 2012. Endogenous hormone<br />
levels and anatomical characters of haustoria in<br />
Santalum album L. seedlings before and after attachment<br />
to the host. Journal of Plant Physiology 169(9): 859-866.<br />
[Studying the endogenous hormones involved in the<br />
haustorial development of S. album on its host Kuhnia<br />
rosmarinifolia. A high auxin-to-cytokinin ratio<br />
contributed to haustorial development.]<br />
Zhang XinHua, da Silva, J.A.T., Jia YongXia, Zhao JieTang<br />
and Ma GuoHua. 2012. Chemical composition of<br />
volatile oils from the pericarps of Indian sandalwood<br />
(Santalum album) by different extraction methods.<br />
Natural Product Communications 7(1): 93-96.<br />
[Identifying palmitic and oleic acids and a range of other<br />
compounds in the pericarp oil from S. album.]<br />
Zhang XinHua, da Silva, J.A.T. and Ma GuoHua. 2011.<br />
Karyotype analysis of Santalum album L. Caryologia<br />
63(2): 142-148. [Reporting diploid (2n=20) and<br />
tetraploid (2n=40) individuals in S. album while some<br />
meristems showed ‘mixaploid’ character.]<br />
Zhang XinXian, Zhang XinZhi, Lin RiYang, Huang Di, Li<br />
Jie, Wu Feng, Liu NanNan and He LiQun. 2012. (Study<br />
on the intervention of reproductive function in GTW<br />
induced mice by Chinese herbs with the hormone<br />
changes.) (in Chinese) Journal of Liaoning University of<br />
Traditional Chinese Medicine 14(2): 37-39. [Supporting<br />
the potential for Cistanche spp. in promoting kidney<br />
yang and nourishing kidney yin.]<br />
Zheng QianqQing, Li Ming, Li PengCheng, Wang JingJing<br />
and Jiang JiYuan. 2012. Study on the spatial distribution<br />
characteristics of sandy Cistanche deserticola soil<br />
moisture under the drip irrigation. Medicinal Plant 3(1):<br />
9-12. [Abstract no clearer than the title.]<br />
Zheng Wei, Tan XingQi, Guo LiangJun, Kong FeiFei, Lu<br />
Pin, Ni DongJie and Wang Ping. 2012. Chemical<br />
constituents from Monochasma savatieri. Chinese<br />
Journal of Natural Medicines 10(2): 102-104.<br />
[Identifying eight compounds from M. savatieri<br />
(Orobanchaceae).]<br />
Zhao, Y.L., Wang, X.Y., Sun, L.X., Fan, R.H., Bi, K.S. nd<br />
Yu, Z.G. 2012. Cytotoxic constituents of Viscum<br />
coloratum. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung. Section C,<br />
Biosciences 67(3/4): 129-134. [Identifying 19<br />
compounds in V. coloratum in China, including 2 with<br />
cytotoxic activity against human tumour cell lines.]<br />
Zweifel, R., Bangerter, S., Rigling, A. and Sterck, F.J. 2012.<br />
Pine and mistletoes: how to live with a leak in the water<br />
flow and storage system? Journal of Experimental<br />
Botany 63(7): 2565-2578. [Studies in Switzerland show<br />
that stomata of Pinus sylvestris infested by Viscum<br />
album close but still suffer water loss and also suffer<br />
reduced photosynthesis. A tree with more than 10-20%<br />
of its total leaf area attributable to V. album is at the<br />
threshold of keeping a positive carbon balance.<br />
Increasing mistletoe abundance, due to increasing mean<br />
annual temperatures, is accelerating pine decline in<br />
many dry inner-Alpine valleys.]
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