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ArticleThe New phytologist2025

Diverging repeatomes in holoparasitic Hydnoraceae uncover a playground of genome evolution.

Woorin Kim, Nicola Schmidt, Matthias Jost, Elijah Mbandi Mkala, Sylke Winkler, Guangwan Hu, Tony Heitkam, Stefan Wanke

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Article in The New phytologist, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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8 authors.

Woorin KimDepartment of Botany and Molecular Evolution, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5091-0087
Nicola SchmidtInstitute of Biology I, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0038-9581
Matthias JostDepartment of Botany and Molecular Evolution, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-3241
Elijah Mbandi MkalaCAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2426-1507
Sylke WinklerDresden-Concept Genome Center, 01307, Dresden, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0915-3316
Guangwan HuCAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7728-7976
Tony HeitkamInstitute of Biology I, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0168-8428
Stefan WankeDepartment of Botany and Molecular Evolution, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5405-5216

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transition from an autotrophic to a heterotrophic lifestyle is associated with numerous genomic changes. These often involve large genomic alterations, potentially driven by repetitive DNAs. Despite their recognized role in shaping plant genomes, the contribution of repetitive DNAs to parasitic plant genome evolution remains largely unexplored. This study presents the first analysis of repetitive DNAs in Hydnoraceae genomes, a plant family whose members are holoparasitic. Repetitive DNAs were identified and annotated de novo. Abundant transposable elements and 35S ribosomal DNA in the Hydnora visseri genome were reconstructed in silico. Their patterns of abundance and presence-absence were individually and comparatively analyzed. Both Hydnoraceae genera, Hydnora and Prosopanche, exhibit distinct repeatome profiles which challenge our current understanding of repeatome and rDNA evolution. The Hydnora genomes are dominated by long terminal repeat retrotransposons, while the Prosopanche genomes vary greatly in their repeat composition: Prosopanche bonacinae with a highly abundant single DNA transposon and Prosopanche panguanensis with over 15% 5S rDNA, compared to ≤ 0.1% in the Hydnora genomes. The repeat profiles align with the phylogeny, geographical distribution, and host shifts of the Hydnoraceae, indicating a potential role of repetitive DNAs in shaping Hydnoraceae genomes to adapt to the parasitic lifestyle.

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Evolution, MolecularGenome, PlantRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidDNA, PlantDNA, RibosomalDNA Transposable ElementsPhylogenyRetroelementsDNA, PlantDNA, RibosomalDNA Transposable ElementsRetroelementscomparative genomicsDNA transposonsparasitic plantsrepetitive DNAribosomal DNAtransposable elements

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