Striga hermonthica

TaxID: 68872

Basic Information

Striga hermonthica

Purple Witchweed, purple witchweed

Striga hermonthica, commonly known as purple witchweed or giant witchweed, is a hemiparasitic plant that belongs to the family Orobanchaceae. It is devastating to major crops such as sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and rice (Oryza sativa). In sub-Saharan Africa, apart from sorghum and rice, it also infests maize (Zea mays), pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), and sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum). Striga hermonthica has undergone horizontal gene transfer from Sorghum to its nuclear genome. The S. hermonthica gene, ShContig9483, is most like a Sorghum bicolor gene, and additionally shows significant but lesser similarity to a gene from Oryza sativa. It shows no similarity to any known eudicot gene.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Lamiales

Orobanchaceae

Striga

hermonthica

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Photos (5 photos)

Striga hermonthica
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(c) Marco Schmidt@BY-NC-SA
Striga hermonthica
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(c) em-bellis@BY-NC
Striga hermonthica
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(c) Denis Bastianelli@BY
Striga hermonthica
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(c) International Institute of Tropical Agriculture@BY-NC
Striga hermonthica
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(c) Marco Schmidt@BY-NC-SA

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (1 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Nicotiana tabacum Host

Quarantine Status (13 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Belarus Quarantine pest 1994
Cambodia Quarantine pests —
Guatemala Absent —
Indonesia Absent —
India Quarantine pests —
Iran Absent 2018
Mexico Quarantine pests 2018
Myanmar Quarantine pests —
Malaysia Quarantine pests —
Seychelles Quarantine pests —
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Distribution (40 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

39
Present
1
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Angola Present —
Burundi Present —
Benin Present —
Burkina Faso Present —
Central African Republic Present —
Cambodia Present —
Côte d'Ivoire Present —
Cameroon Present —
Democratic Republic of the Congo Present —
Egypt Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature