Apostasia nipponica is the first member of the early-diverging orchid clade found to be using this strategy.
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Erin Zimmerman
Host specificity is a driver of speciation in parasitic plants
Broomrapes (Orobanche spp.) are a cosmopolitan genus of root holoparasites–non-photosynthetic angiosperms that obtain nutrients and energy by connecting to the roots of other plants. Using a phylogenetic study, based on...
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The first plastid genome for the plant parasite family Cytinaceae
Parasitic plants are a noticeable exception to the evolutionary stability of the plastid genome, but only some parasite lineages have been sequenced so far. Roquet et al. provide the complete plastome of Cytinus...
