10 September، 2025
A staff member from the Center for Arid Farming and Conservation Agriculture Research’s (C. AFCAR) has authored a scholarly book on parasitic weeds.
The University of Mosul’s Ibn al-Atheer Publishing House has released a book entitled Parasitic Weeds of the World Biology and Control, co-authored by Professor Dr. Salim Hommide Antar, a staff member at the Center for Arid Farming and Conservation Agriculture Research’s (C. AFCAR) and Head of the Agronomy Department there; Professor Dr. Adnan Hussein Ali Al-wagaa, a faculty member at the College of Agriculture, University of Diyala; and Professor Dr. Mohammed Abd Alwhab Al-Noree, a faculty member at the College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Mosul.
This volume marks the sixth book authored by Dr. Salim Hommide Antar and the first to be produced during his tenure at the Center for Arid Farming and Conservation Agriculture Research (C. AFCAR). The book is composed of five chapters addressing the most significant parasitic weeds affecting plants, including Cuscuta (dodder); the devastating witchweeds (Striga spp.) that threaten cereal crops; Orobanche (broomrapes); mistletoes; as well as other root-parasitic species.
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