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

In sunflower, molecular markers for simple traits as, eg, fertility restoration, high oleic acid
content, herbicide tolerance or resistances to Plasmopara halstedii, Puccinia helianthi, or …

Background Recombinant inbred (RI) strains are an important resource for mapping
complex traits in many species. While large RI panels are available for Arabidopsis, maize …

Orobanche cumana (sunflower broomrape) is an obligate parasitic plant that infects
sunflower roots, causing yield losses. Here, by using a map-based cloning strategy, we …

Broomrape, caused by Orobanche cumana, has affected sunflowers since the early 20th
century in Eastern Europe. Currently, it limits sunflower oil production in Southern and …

Oilseed rape, or canola (Brassica napus ssp. napus; genome AACC, 2n= 38) is today the
world's third-leading source of both vegetable oil and oil extraction meal. Total world …

Orobanche cumana (sunflower broomrape) is an obligatory and non-photosynthetic root
parasitic plant that specifically infects the sunflower. It is located in Europe and in Asia …

Despite the importance of plant–plant interactions on crop yield and plant community
dynamics, our understanding of the genetic and molecular bases underlying natural …

Simple sequence repeat (SSR) and other DNA sequence-tagged site markers can be
genotyped more rapidly and cost efficiently by simultaneously amplifying multiple loci …

Broomrape is a root parasitic plant causing yield losses in sunflower production. Since
sunflower is an important oil crop, the development of broomrape-resistant hybrids is the …