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Striga hermonthica,
commonly known as
purple witchweed or
giant witchweed, is a
hemiparasitic plant that
belongs to the
family Orobanchaceae. It is devastating...
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species cause the most damage:
Striga asiatica, S. gesnerioides, and S.
hermonthica.
Witchweed parasitizes maize, millet, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, legumes...
- ; Wood****,
Christine M. (2002-09-01). "Control of
Witchweed Striga hermonthica by
Intercropping with
Desmodium spp., and the
Mechanism Defined as Allelopathic"...
- P.; Hess, D. E.; Hanna, W. W. (October 2000). "Resistance to
Striga hermonthica in Wild
Accessions of the
Primary Gene Pool of
Pennisetum glau****". Phytopathology...
- Offei, S. K.; Dzidzienyo,
Daniel (2019-04-16). "Inheritance of
Striga hermonthica adaptive traits in an earlyâmaturing
white maize inbred line containing...
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including Asiatic witchweed (Striga asiatica) and
purple witchweed (S.
hermonthica). Symb. Antill. 8: 292 (1920) "Desmodium
intortum L."
Plants of the World...
- gr**** can be
infested with the
parasitic plant purple witchweed (Striga
hermonthica).
Wikimedia Commons has
media related to
Eragrostis pilosa. "Eragrostis...
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grain borer beetle.
Sorghum is a host of the
parasitic plant Striga hermonthica,
purple witchweed; it can
seriously reduce production.
Sorghum is subject...
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including Asiatic witchweed (Striga asiatica) and
purple witchweed (S.
hermonthica) and to
repel Chilo partellus, a stem-boring gr**** moth.
Insects (including...
- Rich, A. Menkir, T. Housley, and G. Ejeta. 2008.
Resistance to
Striga hermonthica in a
maize inbred line
derived from Zea diploperennis. New Phytologist...
