Parasitic weeds are a major threat to food security in Africa and control measures mostly done by smallholder farmers are not effective in eradicating the parasites.This results in a yield loss up to 100%.Parasitic we...
financially supported by funding for Airong Li from Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young and Elite Talents Project (YNWR-QNBJ-2018-092);Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011276);Young Academic and Technical Leader Raising Foundation of Yunnan Province (2014HB047);funding for Yunju Li from Young Academic and Technical Leader Raising Foundation of Yunnan Province (2019HB060);Yunnan Science and Technology Innovation Team Program (Grant No. 2019HC015)
Malania oleifera(Olacaceae)is a valued tree species,mostly because its seeds have high precious fatty acid content(particularly nervonic acid).However,seedling mortality rates are often high and regeneration of this t...
Grants 148/2012,144/2013 and 71/2015“Lichinomycetes i Sverige”from the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative(Svenska artprojektet)administered by the Swedish Species Information Center(ArtDatabanken);Grant 2016-03589 from the Swedish Research Council(VR).
Here,we show that Lichinodium(Lichinaceae,Lichinomycetes,Ascomycota)constitutes a formerly unrecognized lineage within the Leotiomycetes,thus being the first lichenized lineage recognized in the superclass Sordariomyc...
financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(31370512,U1303201,and 31400440);Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province(2016FB059);funding for Airong Li from The Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences;the Young Academic and Technical Leader Raising Foundation of Yunnan Province(2014HB047)
Haustorium formation is the characteristic feature of all parasitic plants and a vital process for successful parasitism.Previous investigations on haustorium initiation and development are constricted to induced proc...
Parasitic plants have evolved independently 12 or 13 times and comprise about 1% of angiosperms. Depending on whether photosynthesis is at least partly retained or completely lost, plant parasites can be classified as...