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 …

Abstract Whole-genome duplication (WGD), or polyploidy, events are widespread and
significant in the evolutionary history of angiosperms. However, empirical evidence for …

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 …

To improve our understanding of the origin and evolution of mycoheterotrophic plants, we
here present the chromosome-scale genome assemblies of two sibling orchid species …

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 …

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 …