Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is a staple food crop in Burkina Faso that widely grown the Sahelian and Sudano-Sahelian zones, characterised by poor soil conditions erratic rainfall, high temperatures. The objective of this study was to document farmers’ perceptions prevailing constraints affecting pearl production related approaches manage parasitic weeds S. hermonthica. conducted Sahel, zo...

Where did the name come from? Well the lactone part obviously came from the structure and the ‘striga’ part came from their first identified function. They were originally identified as very annoying molecules exuded from plant roots because they stimulated germination of very harmful parasitic weeds, such as Striga sp. and Orobanche sp. The term ‘striga’ comes from the Latin words strix or str...