Includes bibliographical references and index.

The striga scourge in Africa : a growing pandemic / Gebisa Ejeta -- Biology of host-parasite interactions in striga species / Patrick J. Rich and Gebisa Ejeta -- Host detection by root parasites : insights from transciptome profiles / John I. Yoder ... [et al.] -- Germination of striga and chemical signaling involved : a target for control methods / Zhongkui Sun, Radoslava Matusova and Harro Bouwmeester -- Chemicals involved in post-germination inhibition of striga by desmodium : opportunities for utilizing the associated allelopathic traits / John A. Pickett ... [et al.] -- Genetic diversity of striga and implications for control and modeling future distributions / Kamal I. Mohamed ... [et al.] -- Dissecting a complex trait to simpler components for effective breeding of sorghum with a high level of striga resistance / Gebisa Ejeta, Patrick J. Rich and Abdallah Mohamed -- Breeding maize for broad-based resistance to Striga hermonthica / Abebe Menkir ... [et al.] -- Molecular markers for analysis of resistance to Striga gesnerioides in cowpea / Michael P. Timko ... [et al.] -- Introgression of genes for striga resistance into African landraces of sorghum / Issoufou Kapran, Cecile Grenier and Gebisa Ejeta -- Success with the low biotech of seed-coated imidazolinone-resistant maize / Fred Kanampiu ... [et al.] -- Marker-assisted selection for striga resistance in sorghum / Cécile Grenier ... [et al.] -- The molecular genetic basis of host resistance to striga species : a way forward / Julie D. Scholes ... [et al.] -- Effects on striga parasitism of transgenic maize armed with RNAi constructs targeting essential S. asiatica genes / Anic de Framond ... [et al.] -- An integrated striga management option offers effective control of striga in Ethiopia / Tesfaye Tesso ... [et al.] -- Integrating crop management practices for striga control / Joel K. Ransom, Abdel Gabar Babiker and George D. Odhiambo -- Cultural and cropping systems approach for striga management--a low cost alternative option in subsistence farming / Fasil Reda and J.A.C. Verkleij -- Field developments on striga control by Desmodium intercrops in a "push-pull" strategy / Zeyaur R. Khan ...[et al.] -- Integrated striga management to meet sorghum demand in Tanzania / Ambonesigwe M. Mbwaga, Charles Riches and Gebisa Ejeta -- Striga economics / Hugo de Groote -- Biocontrol using Fusarium oxysporum; a critical component of integrated striga management / Fen D. Beed ... [et al.] -- Genetically enhancing the virulence and efficacy of plant pathogens for biological control of parasitic plants / David C. Sands ... [et al.] -- Transgenic biocontrol agents to overcome evolutionary barriers / Jonathan Gressel ... [et al.] -- Epilogue: Will there be integrated striga control? / Jonathan Gressel and Brhane Gebrekidan.