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BMC Plant Biology BioMed Central Database Open Access Pscroph, a parasitic plant EST database enriched for parasite associated transcripts Manuel J Torres1,2, Alexey A Tomilov1,3, Natalya Tomilova1,3, 1 1 Russell L Reagan and John I Yoder* Address: 1Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA, 2Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, 111 Riverbend Road #224, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA and 3Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina Str., 3, Moscow, Russia Email: Manuel J Torres - mjtorres@; Alexey A Tomilov - tomilov@; Natalya Tomilova - tomilov@; Russell L Reagan - rssllr@; John I Yoder* - jiyoder@ * Corresponding author Published: 16 November 2005 Received: 28 July 2005 Accepted: 16 November 2005 BMC Plant Biology 2005, 5:24 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-5-24 This article is available from: /1471-2229/5/24 © 2005 Torres et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Parasitic plants in the Orobanchaceae develop invasive root haustoria upon contact with host roots or root factors. The development of haustoria can be visually monitored and is rapid, highly synchronous, and strongly depe