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Journal Article
Parasitic plants are models for examining global food security, biodiversity loss and host–parasite evolution, in a changing world
2025
Overview
Parasitic plants, though often overlooked, are of exceptional importance and play a major functional role in the world's ecosystems. Where parasitic plants affect agricultural systems, they pose a threat to global food security at a time when this is already foreshadowed by a fast‐changing climate, a growing human population, economic volatility and abiotic stressors. Parasitic plants include evolutionary enigmas, for example, the world's largest flowers and plants that grow inside other plants; they are also models for exploring plastome evolution and plant–plant interactions. In this special issue of Plants, People, Planet, 16 articles give a holistic, multidimensional snapshot into current parasitic plant biology and present ways forward in the context of major global change.
