ReviewPlanta2011
Piecing together the puzzle of parasitic plant plastome evolution.
Review in Planta, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.
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30 citing papers in PubMed.
- Interspecific secondary plasmodesmata at the parasitic interface.Plant & cell physiology · 2026Review
- Comparative plastomes of fiveAoB PLANTS · 2025Article
- Comparative and phylogenetic analyses of Loranthaceae plastomes provide insights into the evolutionary trajectories of plastome degradation in hemiparasitic plants.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- Complete chloroplast genomes of five Cuscuta species and their evolutionary significance in the Cuscuta genus.BMC genomics · 2023Article
- The plant vampire diaries: a historic perspective on Cuscuta research.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Review
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- The extremely reduced, diverged and reconfigured plastomes of the largest mycoheterotrophic orchid lineage.BMC plant biology · 2022Article
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- Comparative chloroplast genome analysis ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Variation in Plastome Sizes Accompanied by Evolutionary History in Monogenomic Triticeae (Poaceae: Triticeae).Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- The First Plastid Genome of the Holoparasitic GenusPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Mycoheterotrophic Epirixanthes (Polygalaceae) has a typical angiosperm mitogenome but unorthodox plastid genomes.Annals of botany · 2019Article
- Unprecedented Parallel Photosynthetic Losses in a Heterotrophic Orchid Genus.Molecular biology and evolution · 2019Article
- Caught in action: fine-scale plastome evolution in the parasitic plants of Cuscuta section Ceratophorae (Convolvulaceae).Plant molecular biology · 2019Article
- Principles of plastid reductive evolution illuminated by nonphotosynthetic chrysophytes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Plastid Genomes of Five Species of Riverweeds (Podostemaceae): Structural Organization and Comparative Analysis in Malpighiales.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Article
- Dynamic evolution and phylogenomic analysis of the chloroplast genome in Schisandraceae.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Genome Reports: Contracted Genes and Dwarfed Plastome in Mycoheterotrophic Sciaphila thaidanica (Triuridaceae, Pandanales).Genome biology and evolution · 2018Article
- The complete chloroplast genome of hemi-parasiticMitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2018Article
- Plastome Evolution in the Sole Hemiparasitic Genus Laurel Dodder (Cassytha) and Insights into the Plastid Phylogenomics of Lauraceae.Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
The importance of photosynthesis as a mode of energy production has put plastid genomes of plants under a constant purifying selection. This has shaped the characteristic features of plastid genomes across the entire spectrum of photosynthetic plants and has led to a highly uniform and conserved plastid genome with respect to structure, size, gene order, intron and editing site positions and coding capacity. Parasitic species that have dropped photosynthesis as the main energy provider share striking deviations from the plastid genome norm: multiple rearrangements within the circular chromosome, pseudogenization and gene deletions, promoter losses, intron losses as well as the extensive loss of mRNA editing competence have been reported. The collective loss of larger sets of functionally related genes like those for the plastid NADH-dehydrogenase complex and concomitant losses of RNA polymerase genes together with their target promoters point to "domino effects" where an initial loss might have triggered others. An example, which will be discussed in more detail, is the concomitant loss of the intron maturase gene matK and all introns that are supposedly subject to MatK-dependent splicing in two Cuscuta species.
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