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Growing Broomrape (Orobanche spp.) in a Soilless System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Reuven Jacobsohn ,
Chester L. Foy  and
Kela Marton
Reuven Jacobsohn
Affiliation:
Inst. of Field and Garden Crops, Agric. Res. Org. The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
Chester L. Foy
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Pathol., Physiol., Weed Sci., Va. Polytech. Inst. State Univ., Blacksburg, VA 24061
Kela Marton
Affiliation:
Inst. of Field and Garden Crops, Agric. Res. Org. The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
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Abstract

A soilless unit was devised in which host plant (carrot, tomato) roots can be readily infected with broomrape. The simple, inexpensive and reusable unit consists of two glass plates, synthetic cloth, and foam rubber. The host plants are placed (or grown) between the glass plates, being held against one of the plates by foam rubber. The unit provides proper growing conditions, convenient visibility of host roots and parasite from an early stage of infection, and nondestructive access to the roots and parasite. Exposure of the broomrape seeds to a synthetic germination stimulant (GR 24) prior to their application to the host roots, generally, but not always, caused some increase in the number of parasitic infections and/or the rate of broomrape growth.

Keywords

GR 24, a strigol analoguecarrot, Daucus carota L.crenate broomrape, Orobanche crenata Forsk. ♯4 ORACREgyptian broomrape, Orobanche aegyptiaca Pers. ♯ ORAAEtomato, Lycopersicon esculentum MillPhanerogamic root parasitenondestructive manipulationgermination stimulantORAAEORACRparasitic weeds
Type
Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 804 - 807
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 Weed Science Society of America 

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