Happy to announce the speakers of our October IPPS Online seminar: Guojing Shen and Laia Jené www.parasiticplants.org/2025/09/ipps...

Announcement of a chromosome-level assembly and annotation of #parasiticplant Cuscuta campestris

A close-up of the development of a parasitic endophyte by @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social and colleagues. #parasiticplants

Check out this new story from the Felix lab, with some contribution from us: Receptor antagonist prevents hyperactivation of the plant immune system www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fantastic news! I hope Amal will return to parasitic plants one day.

Drawing your attention to this wonderful resource from the IPPS – the Haustorium Newsletter edited by Chris Parker – now in its 87th edition. Chris, who is a few years older than the number of this issue, reviewed recent publications on parasitic plants and commented briefly on most of them (>200).

What's going on in fungi?? Chromosomes are distributed across several different nuclei in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea Article in @science.org here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... And Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Save the date - the WCPP is coming to Brazil in June 2026! www.parasiticplants.org/2025/04/18th...

„Für die einen sind sie Lebensraum, für die anderen der Tod“ – Misteln in der Zeit: www.zeit.de/wissen/2025-...

Now receiving submissions for our special issue: 'The Biology of Parasitic Plants - Mechanisms, Diversity & Evolution' Organising Editors: A. Okazawa @okazawaa.bsky.social T. Spallek @thomas-spallek.bsky.social K. Yoneyama S. Yoshida Interested? Contact Us 💻 academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/sp...

Please check out our Commentary on the recent PNAS paper from the @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social lab about systemic signals in Phtheirospermum japonicum: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Get ready for some festive parasites! On April 2nd at 1 GMT, our IPPS online seminars are all about mistletoes - one of nature's most iconic parasitic plants. Follow the link to find out more: www.parasiticplants.org/2025/03/ipps...

New publication: The role of #strigolactone structural diversity in the host specificity and control of #Striga, a major constraint to sub-Saharan #agriculture. #microbiome #fungi #parasiticplants #sorghum #sulfotransferase https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10549

Happening tomorrow - see you at 1 pm GMT

24 years (+) of IPPS history on: www.parasiticplants.org/2025/02/upda...

#ParasiticPlants 😊

Thank you for the exciting IPPS seminars by Salma Shahid @psaima.bsky.social and Jiacheng Ji www.parasiticplants.org/2025/02/febr...

An amazing #ParasiticPlants - basically a parasitic flower with the host providing all the other plant organs

We're excited to have Saima Shahid (UK) and Jiacheng Ji (China) as our next speakers at the IPPS seminar: www.parasiticplants.org/2025/01/ipps...

Should have come here early - good to see that you are all already here. By the way, this is our lab logo.