Orobanche is also known as ___________

🔑 Key Points
Orobanche: Orobanche crenata (largest Orobanche species)
→ It is also called broomrape.
→ There are more than 150 species.
→ It is a total root parasite.
→ It is a serious phanerogamous parasite of tobacco. It also attacks other crops than tobacco.
→ A single plant carries 10-100 flowers and hence, may produce 1,00,000 or more seeds.
→ It mainly attacks Fabaceae and Apiaceae.

📌 Important Points
Management
→ Do not plant tobacco, potato, tomato, or brinjal in infested fields.
→ Uprooting of such plants weekly, preferably before seed set.
→ Deep ploughing before and after tobacco cultivation.
→ Field sprayed with chemicals like 2, 4-D.

📝 Additional Information
Weed
→ A weed is a plant that interferes with human activity or welfare.
→ It is also defined as a plant growing in a place where it is not desired at a particular point in time.