The broomrape is a special genus of parasitic plants. Overall, about 120 kinds of this plant are known (sunflower, yellow, branched, etc.). But we are very familiar with the most “popular” of them – the sunflower broomrape.
In this video, Alexander Alexandrovich Detsyna, the head of the laboratory of sunflower varieties breeding, tells how to control it and what methods the scientists of V.S. Pustovoit All-Russian Research Institute of Oil Crops are using for it.