The study of plant mitochondria started in earnest around 1950 with the first isolations of
mitochondria from animal and plant tissues. The first 35 years were spent establishing the …

Plastids and mitochondria are the only organelles that possess genomes of endosymbiotic
origin. In recent decades, advances in sequencing technologies have contributed to a …

The central dogma in biology defines the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to
protein. Accordingly, RNA molecules generally accurately follow the sequences of the genes …

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 …

We examine recent evidence for ratchet‐like genome degradation in mycoheterotrophs,
plants that obtain nutrition from fungi. Initial loss of the NADH dehydrogenase‐like (NDH) …

We recently achieved targeted disruptions of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS)‐associated
genes in the mitochondrial genomes of rice and rapeseed by using mitochondria‐targeted …

The functional content of the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) is highly diverse across
eukaryotes. Among land plants, our understanding of the variation in mitochondrial gene …

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 …

Eukaryotic cells require orchestrated communication between nuclear and organellar
genomes, perturbations in which are linked to stress response and disease in both animals …

The therapeutic story of European mistletoe (Viscum album L.) presents a seesawing profile.
In ancient times, this hemiparasitic plant was considered a panacea and even to be …