Integrating New Technologies For Striga Control

Towards Ending The Witch-hunt

By: Gebisa Ejeta (Editor), Jonathan Gressel (Editor)

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Hardcover | 18 June 2007

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Witchweeds (Striga species) decimate agriculture in much of Africa and parts of Asia, attacking the major cereal grains and legumes, and halving the already very low yields of subsistence farmers. Several years of research have provided promising technologies, based on the fundamental biology of the parasite-host associations, for dealing with this scourge. However, there is an apparent realization that these technologies will fail because highly successful weeds such as Striga evolve resistance to all types of controls unless proven methods are integrated with each other for a more sustainable solution.Integration is often an anathema to basic scientists who typically deal with single variables and solutions. However, key leaders in the development of the new knowledge-based control strategies, already in the field and under development, recently joined forces to develop strategies and projects in order to integrate the technologies in a symposium in Ethiopia in November 2006. The encouraging results are described in this peer-reviewed book, authored by leaders in the field who have been supplying the basic biology, genetics, biochemistry, and molecular information that have offered insights and generated technologies in how to deal with Striga.

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Introduction - the witches' curse	p. 1
The Striga scourge in Africa : a growing pandemic	p. 3
Biology and chemistry - the needed basics	p. 17
Biology of host-parasite interactions in Striga species	p. 19
Host detection by root parasites : insights from transciptome profiles	p. 33
Germination of Striga and chemical signaling involved : a target for control methods	p. 47
Chemicals involved in post-germination inhibition of Striga by Desmodium : opportunities for utilizing the associated allelopathic traits	p. 61
Genetic diversity of Striga and implications for control and modeling future distributions	p. 71
Knowledge-based breeding - translating information to products	p. 85
Dissecting a complex trait to simpler components for effective breeding of sorghum with a high level of Striga resistance	p. 87
Breeding maize for broad-based resistance to Striga Hermonthica	p. 99
Molecular markers for analysis of resistance to Striga Gesnerioides in cowpea	p. 115
Introgression of genes for Striga resistance into African landraces of sorghum	p. 129
Biotechnology : opening new frontiers	p. 143
Success with the low biotech of seed-coated imidazolinone-resistant maize	p. 145
Marker-assisted selection for Striga resistance in sorghum	p. 159
The molecular genetic basis of host resistance to Striga species : a way forward	p. 173
Effects on Striga parasitism of transgenic maize armed with RNAi constructs targeting essential S. Asiatica genes	p. 185
Agronomic options : the first and essential line of control and policy considerations	p. 197
An integrated Striga management option offers effective control of Striga in Ethiopia	p. 199
Integrating crop management practices for Striga control	p. 213
Cultural and cropping systems approach for Striga management - a low cost alternative option in subsistence farming	p. 229
Field developments on Striga control by Desmodium intercrops in a "push-pull" strategy	p. 241
Integrated Striga management to meet sorghum demand in Tanzania	p. 253
Striga economics	p. 265
Biocontrol : untapped potential?	p. 281
Biocontrol using Fusarium Oxysporum; a critical component of integrated Striga management	p. 283
Genetically enhancing the virulence and efficacy of plant pathogens for biological control of parasitic plants	p. 301
Transgenic biocontrol agents to overcome evolutionary barriers	p. 313
Epilogue	p. 325
Epilogue - will there be integrated Striga control?	p. 327
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