Background Plastomes of heterotrophic plants have been greatly altered in structure and
gene content, owing to the relaxation of selection on photosynthesis-related genes. The …

In order to understand the evolution of the orchid plastome, we annotated and compared
124 complete plastomes of Orchidaceae representing all the major lineages in their …

Introduction Galeola lindleyana is a mycoheterotrophic orchid belonging to the tribe
Vanilleae within the subfamily Vanilloideae. Methods In this study, the G. lindleyana …

The orchid genus Vietorchis comprises three species, all discovered in the 21 century. Each
of these species is achlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic and is known to be endemic to …

Mixotrophic species use both organic and mineral carbon sources. Some mixotrophic plants
combine photosynthesis and a nutrition called mycoheterotrophy, where carbon is obtained …

• Premise of the study: Plastid genomes of nonphotosynthetic, mycoheterotrophic plants
represent apt systems in which to study effects of relaxed evolutionary constraints. The few …

Background Mycoheterotrophs, acquiring organic carbon and other nutrients from
mycorrhizal fungi, have evolved repeatedly with substantial plastid genome (plastome) …

The orchid genus Dipodium R. Br.(Epidendroideae) comprises leafy autotrophic and
leafless mycoheterotrophic species, with the latter confined to sect. Dipodium. This study …

The plastid genome (plastome) of heterotrophic plants like mycoheterotrophs and parasites
shows massive gene losses in consequence to the relaxation of functional constraints on …

Cyrtosia septentrionalis is an achlorophyllous mycoheterotrophic orchid in the subfamily
Vanilloideae (Orchidaceae). This article reports C. septentrionalis's complete plastome …