Extreme plastomes in holoparasitic Balanophoraceae are not the norm [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2023 Background Balanophoraceae plastomes are known for their highly condensed and re-arranged nature alongside the most extreme nucleotide compositional bias known to date, culminating in two independent reconfigurations of their genetic code.
Woorin Kim +7 more
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Quantitative Approach for Determining Reproductive Life‐History Strategies of Parasitic Plants: A Case Study in Balanophora [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionParasitic plants are a diverse and unique polyphyletic assemblage of flowering plants that survive by obtaining resources via direct vascular connections to a host plant.
Trevor Padgett +4 more
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Balanophora xinfeniae (Balanophoraceae), a new species from Xizang, China [PDF]
PhytoKeysBalanophora xinfeniae C.L.Fu, M.Li & B.Xu, a new species discovered in Xizang, China, is described and illustrated here. Molecular phylogenetic analyses and morphological comparisons strongly support B. xinfeniae as a new species within the genus
Chen-Long Fu +5 more
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Embryology in Helosis cayennensis (Balanophoraceae): Structure of Female Flowers, Fruit, Endosperm and Embryo [PDF]
Plants, 2019 Helosis cayennensis (Balanophoraceae s.str.) is a holoparasite characterised by aberrant vegetative bodies and tiny, reduced unisexual flowers. Here, we analysed the development of female flowers to elucidate their morpho-anatomy and the historical ...
Ana Maria Gonzalez +2 more
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Flora das cangas da Serra dos Carajás, Pará, Brasil: Balanophoraceae [PDF]
Rodriguésia, 2006 Resumo Este estudo engloba as espécies de Balanophoraceae ocorrentes nas cangas da Serra dos Carajás, Pará, Brasil, e fornece descrições, ilustrações e comentários morfológicos das espécies na área de estudo.
Julia Meirelles
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Genomic comparison of non-photosynthetic plants from the family Balanophoraceae with their photosynthetic relatives [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The plant family Balanophoraceae consists entirely of species that have lost the ability to photosynthesize. Instead, they obtain nutrients by parasitizing other plants.
Mikhail I. Schelkunov +2 more
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A parasitic insect on a parasitic plant: a new species of the genus Formicoccus Takahashi (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Pseudococcidae) from Ishigaki Island, Japan [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 A new species of the genus Formicoccus Takahashi (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Pseudococcidae) collected from the holoparasitic plant Balanophora fungosa J. R. & G.
Hirotaka Tanaka +2 more
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Genome-Wide Analysis of the MADS-Box Gene Family in Holoparasitic Plants (Balanophora subcupularis and Balanophora fungosa var. globosa) [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 MADS-box is an important transcription factor family that is involved in the regulation of various stages of plant growth and development, especially flowering regulation and flower development.
Kunyu Duan +8 more
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Mitochondrial genome evolution in parasitic plants [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Parasitic plants rely on their host to cover their nutritional requirements either for their entire life or a smaller part of it. Depending on the level of parasitism, a proportional reduction on the plastid genome has been found.
Athanasios Zervas +2 more
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Rhopalocnemis phalloides has one of the most reduced and mutated plastid genomes known [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Although most plant species are photosynthetic, several hundred species have lost the ability to photosynthesize and instead obtain nutrients via various types of heterotrophic feeding.
Mikhail I. Schelkunov +2 more
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