{"id":583930,"date":"2019-02-25T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f7b29bfdc9b8e9e72a0b7b7b07a0f998"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:00:42","slug":"the-secret-behind-witchweeds-devastating-ability-to-steal-nutrients-from-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=583930","title":{"rendered":"The secret behind witchweed&#8217;s devastating ability to steal nutrients from crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commonly known as &#8220;witchweed,&#8221; the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica devastates crops in sub-Saharan Africa. Scientists have discovered a unique protein in Striga that helps sustain its high transpiration. Striga uses transpiration to effectively steal water and nutrients from its hosts, so this protein could provide a new target for controlling Striga. The findings were published on February 25 in Nature Plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonly known as &#8220;witchweed,&#8221; the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica devastates crops in sub-Saharan Africa. Scientists have discovered a unique protein in Striga that helps sustain its high transpiration. Striga uses transpiration to effectively stea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583931,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583930\/revisions\/583931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}