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2018

Virginia Tech and Penn State researchers: Parasitic plants may form weapons out of genes stolen from hosts

Floral Hackers: Plant Parasites Use MicroRNAs to Shut Down Host Genes (Discover Magazine, Science Sushi)

2017

Virginia Tech researcher part of $14 million NSF program for improved genomic tools

Current News

Catch the podcast where Jim discusses the future of weed control!

Croptastic, the Inner Plant podcast, Episode 20. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1333906/10000655

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

2022

Plants: 2022. Mobile host mRNAs are translated to protein in the associated parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris. 93. Go to: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11010093

2021

BioRxiv: An artificial host system enables the obligate parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris to grow and complete its life cycle in vitro. Go to: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.21.449293v1.
Trends in Plant Science: 2021. Into the weeds: new insights in plant stress. Go to: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2021.06.003.
Current Biology: Plant biology: Genome reveals secrets of the alien within. Go to: DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.012
Plant Physiology: Plasma membrane phylloquinone biosynthesis in non-photosynthetic parasitic plants. Go to: DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab031

2020

PeerJ: Multiple immune pathways control susceptibility of Arabidopsis thaliana to the parasitic weed Phelipanche aegyptiaca. Go to: DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9268
Weed Science: A new race of sunflower broomrape (Orobanche cumana) with a wider host range due to changes in seed response to strigolactones. Go to: DOI: 10.1017/wsc.2019.73

2019

Nature: A phylogenomic view of evolutionary complexity in green plants. Go to: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1693-2
Crop Protection: Growth-defense tradeoffs and source-sink relationship during both faba bean and lentil interactions with Orobanche crenata Forsk. Go to: DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2019.104924
Annual Review of Phytopathology: Molecular dialog between parasitic plants and their hosts. Go to: DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-082718-100043
Nature Plants: Convergent horizontal transfer and crosstalk of mobile nucleic acids in parasitic plants. Go to: DOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0458-0
Metabolites: Comparative metabolomics of early development of the parasitic plants Phelipanche aegyptiaca and Triphysaria versicolor. Go to: DOI:10.3390/metabo9060114

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