Parasitic angiosperms: how often and how many?

DL Nickrent - Taxon, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms that morphologically and physiologically attach to other flowering plants by
means of a haustorium have evolved 12 times independently resulting in 292 genera and …

The haustorium, a specialized invasive organ in parasitic plants

S Yoshida, S Cui, Y Ichihashi… - Annual review of plant …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Parasitic plants thrive by infecting other plants. Flowering plants evolved parasitism
independently at least 12 times, in all cases develo** a unique multicellular organ called …

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group… - Botanical journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification of the orders and
families of angiosperms is presented. Several new orders are recognized: Boraginales …

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV

MW Chase, MJM Christenhusz… - Botanical journal of …, 2016 - ucrisportal.univie.ac.at
An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification of the orders and
families of angiosperms is presented. Several new orders are recognized: Boraginales …

Atmospheric CO2 decline and the timing of CAM plant evolution

RF Sage, IS Gilman, JAC Smith, K Silvera… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims CAM photosynthesis is hypothesized to have evolved in atmospheres
of low CO2 concentration in recent geological time because of its ability to concentrate CO2 …

Genome-wide macroevolutionary signatures of key innovations in butterflies colonizing new host plants

R Allio, B Nabholz, S Wanke, G Chomicki… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The mega-diversity of herbivorous insects is attributed to their co-evolutionary associations
with plants. Despite abundant studies on insect-plant interactions, we do not know whether …

Functional biology of parasitic plants: a review

J Těšitel - Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Background–Parasitic plants are functionally specialized to acquire at least some essential
resources from other plants via specialized organs called haustoria. Parasitism evolved 12 …

Comparative transcriptome analyses reveal core parasitism genes and suggest gene duplication and repurposing as sources of structural novelty

Z Yang, EK Wafula, LA Honaas, H Zhang… - Molecular biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The origin of novel traits is recognized as an important process underlying many major
evolutionary radiations. We studied the genetic basis for the evolution of haustoria, the novel …

The Plastomes of Two Species in the Endoparasite Genus Pilostyles (Apodanthaceae) Each Retain Just Five or Six Possibly Functional Genes

S Bellot, SS Renner - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The 23 species of mycoheterotrophic or exoparasitic land plants (from 15 genera and 6
families) studied so far all retain a minimal set of 17 of the normally 116 plastome genes …

Invited Review Beyond parasitic convergence: unravelling the evolution of the organellar genomes in holoparasites

MV Sanchez-Puerta, LF Ceriotti… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background The molecular evolution of organellar genomes in angiosperms has been
studied extensively, with some lineages, such as parasitic ones, displaying unique …