Plant-parasitic nematodes are a costly burden of crop production. Ubiquitous in nature, phytoparasitic associated with nearly every important agricultural and represent significant constraint on global food security. Population genetics is key discipline plant nematology to understand aspects the life strategies these parasites, particular their modes reproduction, geographic origins, evolution...

Parasitic plants contain some of the most bizarre and fascinating organisms in plant kingdom. Yet they are notable for their absence from botanic gardens’ collections conservation strategies. Besides a handful species, few widespread cultivation; indeed we estimate at least 76 per cent species entirely missing today, these have never been grown all. Here, place focus on holoparasites, group lon...