“…Complete monogenic dominant resistance in sunflower has been reported against all the broomrape races described so far, including races A–E (Vranceanu, Tudor, Stoenescu, & Pirvu, 1980), race F (Pacureanu‐Joita, Veronesi, Raranciuc, & Stanciu, 2004), and race G (Velasco, Pérez‐Vich, Yassein, Jan, & Fernández‐Martínez, 2012). Exceptions in which resistance to sunflower broomrape is controlled by other genetic systems, including control by two independent dominant genes (Pacureanu‐Joita, Raranciuc, Stanciu, Sava, & Nastase, 2008), one dominant and one modifying gene (Velasco, Pérez‐Vich, Jan, & Fernández‐Martínez, 2007), one recessive gene (Imerovski et al., 2016), and two recessive genes (Akhtouch, Muñoz‐Ruz, Melero‐Vara, Fernández‐Martínez, & Domínguez, 2002), have also been reported, but even in these cases, resistance was characterized by the complete absence of emerged shoots of the parasite. No studies have investigated the mechanisms underlying the resistance mechanisms in resistant donor genotypes, but the absence of broomrape tubercles is an indicator of either pre‐attachment or pre‐haustorial resistance mechanisms.…”