**3. Conclusions**

Parasitic plants are the biggest threats to important crops and can cause crop losses until complete failure of crop productivity. Integrated pest management systems seem to be the best solution to find effective, long-lasting, widely applicable and environmentally friendly methods for parasitic weed control. Considering the life cycle of parasitic weeds, prevention of seed germination and/or host binding would be ideal targets for the successful management of parasites. Recently, some fungal metabolites are in *Striga* spp. and for the first time in *Orobanche* spp. This strategy can be an alternative means of bio-control of parasitic plants and reduce the likelihood of host contact disrupting the fine-tuned process of host recognition.

### **Conflict of interest**

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

## **Author details**

Pervin Erdogan Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Sivas University of Science and Technology, Sivas, Turkey

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