Clean and safe water is crucial to maintaining human life on earth. Solar-powered seawater
desalination (SSD) is a promising and feasible way to use solar energy resources to …

We consider the mechanistic basis and functional significance of the pervasive influence of
parasitic plants on productivity and diversity, synthesizing recent findings on their responses …

Summary Despite more than 2,000-fold variation in genome size, key features of genome
architecture are largely conserved across angiosperms. Parasitic plants have elucidated the …

The Cuscuta genus comprises obligate parasitic plants that have an unusually wide host
range. Whether Cuscuta uses different infection strategies for different hosts or whether the …

Parasitic plants use a special organ, the haustorium, to attach to and penetrate host tissues,
forming phloem and/or xylem fusion with the host vascular systems. Across this haustorium …

Parasitic plants have evolved to be subtly or severely dependent on host plants to complete
their life cycle. To provide new insights into the biology of parasitic plants in general, we …

Convolvulaceae is a family of c. 2,000 species, distributed across 60 currently recognized
genera. It includes species of high economic importance, such as the crop sweet potato …

The angiosperm genus Cuscuta lives as an almost achlorophyllous root-and leafless
holoparasite and has therefore occupied scientists for more than a century. The 'evolution'of …

Life history, diversity, and distribution in parasitic flowering plants | Plant Physiology | Oxford
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Background The molecular evolution of organellar genomes in angiosperms has been
studied extensively, with some lineages, such as parasitic ones, displaying unique …