Meet the editors

Ana Maria Gonzalez is the director of the Northeast Botanical Institute, where she is a National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) researcher. She is also in charge of the Institute's Plant Anatomy Laboratory. Her teaching career includes being a Professor of Vascular Plant Morphology, Faculty of Agriculture, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina, and Professor of Biology, Universidad Nacional del

Chaco Austral, Saenz Peña, Chaco, Argentina. She is a postgraduate lecturer in master's and doctoral courses in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, where she teaches numerous courses on anatomy, histological techniques, and bioimaging. Dr. Gonzalez has published 80 articles and more than 160 abstracts presented at national and international congresses.

Héctor Arnaldo Sato is an agricultural engineer with a Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina. His postdoctoral fellowship was based on the reproductive biology of two holoparasitic plants. He is currently Associate Professor of General Botany and Director of the JUA Herbarium, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, National University Jujuy, Argentina. He is the author of 11 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and

39 abstracts presented at congresses. His research work focuses on the reproductive anatomy and taxonomy of parasitic plants. Dr. Sato is also the director of a research project on the reproduction of holoparasitic plants.

Contents

*by Pervin Erdogan*

Species in Nigeria *by Odoligie Imarhiagbe*

a Root-Holoparasitic Plant

Characteristics of *Cuscuta* Spp.

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 73**

**Chapter 6 85**

Parasitic Plants in Agriculture and Management

*by Anupam Gogoi, Namrata Baruah, Mandeep Poudel, Ruby Gupta, Geetanjali Baruah and Basanta Kumar Borah*

Anatomy, Embryology and Life Cycle of *Lophophytum*,

Parasitic Plants in Forage Legumes – *Medicago sativa* L. *by Rozafa Fetahaj, Besarta Kabashi and Arben Mehmeti*

A Review on the Botanical, Phytochemical and Pharmacological

*by Khahdijeh Ahmadi, Heshmat Omidi and Majid Amini Dehaghi*

*by Hector Arnaldo Sato and Ana Maria Gonzalez*

Aspects of the Biology and Ethnobotany of Parasitic Angiosperm

Parasitic Plants as Vectors for Pathogens
