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Broomrapes (Orobanche spp.): A Potential Threat to U.S. Broadleaf Crops

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Rakesh Jain and
Chester L. Foy
Rakesh Jain
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Pathol., Physiol., Weed Sci., Va. Polytech. Inst. State Univ., Blacksburg, VA 24061
Chester L. Foy
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Pathol., Physiol., Weed Sci., Va. Polytech. Inst. State Univ., Blacksburg, VA 24061
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Abstract

Five broadleaf crops, alfalfa, peanut, soybean, tobacco, and tomato, were tested for their susceptibility to three broomrape species, branched, Egyptian and crenate, in the greenhouse. All five crop species were parasitized by one or more broomrape species. Peanut plants were most susceptible and soybean plants were least susceptible to parasitism by broomrape. Egyptian and branched broomrapes had a wider host range affecting plants in both the Solanaceae and Fabaceae. Crenate broomrape mainly infected plants belonging to Fabaceae, except for the few attachments to tomato and tobacco. Apparently, this is the first report on parasitism of peanut plants by branched broomrape and that of peanut and alfalfa plants by crenate broomrape. Parasitism of soybean plants by any of the broomrape species also was observed for the first time in these experiments. These results indicate that broomrapes, although not a major problem on any of the crops in the United States, could parasitize several major broadleaf crops should the parasite become established.

Keywords

Branched broomrape, Orobanche ramosa L. ♯3 ORARAcrenate broomrape, O. crenata Forsk. ♯ ORACREgyptian broomrape, Orobanche aegyptiaca Pers. ♯ ORAAE, alfalfa, Medicago sativa L. ‘Cimmaron’peanut, Arachis hypogaea L. ‘Florigiant’soybean, Glycine max (L.)Merr. ‘Essex’tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum L. ‘Burley 21’tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. ‘Rutgers'Parasitismparasitic weedpotential outbreakSolanaceaeFabaceaeORAAEORARAORACR

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Weed Technology , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 1989, pp. 608 - 614
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Copyright © 1989 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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