What does Orobanche plant feed on?

Plants that it targets are tomato, eggplant, potato, cabbage, coleus, bell pepper, sunflower, celery, and beans. In heavily infested areas, branched broomrape can cause total crop failure.

What is the meaning of Orobanche?

: a large genus (the type of the family Orobanchaceae) of root-parasitic herbs native to the Old World and western America that have fleshy yellowish white and spicate bracted flowers — see broomrape.

What are Orobanche and Striga?

These unique organisms in the genera Striga and Orbanche, are both weeds and parasites. All species of Orobanche and most Striga are obligate parasites-they will not develop at all without a host.

What is the common name of Orobanche?

Branched broomrape (Orobanche ramosa, L.), an introduction from Europe, is also known as tobacco broomrape and hemp broomrape.

How do you control Orobanche?

Therefore, combination of solarization (2-6 weeks) and chicken manure at all depths (0, 5, 10 cm) is an effective weed management to control Orobanche and suppress the infestation, and growth of other weeds in subsequent planting of cabbage.

How do I get rid of broomrape?

Spot spray weeds in known broomrape areas with 3-5g/ha metsulfuron methyl herbicide (e.g. Ally®) at 1000GDD. For late control (1500GDD) spot spray host weeds and broomrape plants with glyphosate. When spot spraying aim to spray the undergrowth of trees and shrubs targeting the green weeds.

What is the broomrape family?

Broomrapes
Broomrapes/Family

Does orobanche have chlorophyll?

broomrape, (genus Orobanche), genus of about 150 species of parasiticannual or perennial herbs (family Orobanchaceae). Broomrapes produce little or no chlorophyll; instead, they draw nourishment from the roots of other plants by means of small suckers called haustoria.

Why is broomrape called broomrape?

The short version of the story is that “broomrape” is the partially translated 16th-century name of a genus of plants, Genista: European plants called brooms. Likewise, rapum is the partially translated Latin for a cluster of tuberlike roots.

Which crop is used as trap crops to the orobanche?

Assessing the Performance of Maize (Zea mays L.) as Trap Crops for the Management of Sunflower Broomrape (Orobanche cumana Wallr.)