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Extreme plastomes in holoparasitic Balanophoraceae are not the norm
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.
Renchao Zhou +2 more
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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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Plants, People, PlanetSocietal Impact Statement Holoendoparasites are extremely rare plants that live entirely hidden inside their hosts, with only flowers and fruits visible.
Jessica A. Ramírez‐Ramírez +4 more
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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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Rediscovery of Thismia caudata after 129 years and synopsis of other achlorophyllous herbs from the Pico do Marumbi State Park and buffer zone in Piraquara, Paraná, Brazil [PDF]
Rodriguésia, 2023 The Atlantic Forest is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The Pico do Marumbi State Park is home to an evergreen ombrophilous forest with areas of transition to the Araucaria moist forest.
Román Carlos Ríos +1 more
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Journal of Mathematical and Fundamental Sciences, 2021 Balanophora elongata (Balanophoraceae) is a tropical parasitic flowering plant 9 cm in height. Four known phenyl acrylic acid derivatives, methyl caffeate (1), caffeic acid (2), 1,6-di-O-caffeoyl-β-D-glucopyranose (3), and coniferin (4), were isolated ...
Dayar Arbain +5 more
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Austral Ecology, Volume 48, Issue 8, Page 1762-1778, December 2023., 2023 Flowers of the Tasmanian endemic shrub Richea dracophylla are covered with a calyptra which is removed by birds before insect pollination can occur. Nocturnal ants Notoncus hickmani were active on flowers in large numbers at temperatures down to 2.5°C. Abstract Our observation of large numbers of ants Notoncus hickmani (Formicinae) on the flowers of a ...
Stewart C. Nicol +2 more
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FIRST RECORD OF Balanophora elongata var. ungeriana SPECIES IN SOUTH SUMATRA
Biovalentia: Biological Research Journal, 2020 The study of Balanophora in South Sumatra has been carried out from July-August 2018. This research uses the direct observation and collection method in 3 km long track in the Bukit Jambul Gunung Patah Protection Forest Area, South Sumatra.
Guntur Pragustiandi +4 more
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Plastid phylogenomics and molecular evolution of Thismiaceae (Dioscoreales)
American Journal of Botany, Volume 110, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Premise Species in Thismiaceae can no longer photosynthesize and instead obtain carbon from soil fungi. Here we infer Thismiaceae phylogeny using plastid genome data and characterize the molecular evolution of this genome. Methods We assembled five Thismiaceae plastid genomes from genome skimming data, adding to previously published data for ...
Natalie Garrett +6 more
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