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 …

Medicinal plants produce important substrates for their adaptation and defenses against
environmental factors and, at the same time, are used for traditional medicine and industrial …

Genome sequences from over 200 plant species have already been published, with this
number expected to increase rapidly due to advances in sequencing technologies. Once a …

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 …

Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich-repeat (NLR) genes comprise the largest family of plant
disease-resistance genes. Angiosperm NLR genes are phylogenetically divided into the …

Parasitic plants in the genus Striga, commonly known as witchweeds, cause major crop
losses in sub-Saharan Africa and pose a threat to agriculture worldwide. An understanding …

Rootless plants in the genus Wolffia are some of the fastest growing known plants on Earth.
Wolffia have a reduced body plan, primarily multiplying through a budding type of asexual …

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 …

Mycoheterotrophic and parasitic plants are heterotrophic and parasitize on fungi and plants,
respectively, to obtain nutrients. Large‐scale comparative genomics analysis has not been …

The plastid and nuclear genomes of parasitic plants exhibit deeply altered architectures, 1–
13 whereas the few examined mitogenomes range from deeply altered to conventional. 14 …