Plastomes on the edge: the evolutionary breakdown of mycoheterotroph plastid genomes

SW Graham, VKY Lam, VSFT Merckx - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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) …

Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships of all flowering plant families

HT Li, Y Luo, L Gan, PF Ma, LM Gao, JB Yang, J Cai… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Flowering plants (angiosperms) are dominant components of global terrestrial
ecosystems, but phylogenetic relationships at the familial level and above remain only …

Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi‐gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots

TJ Givnish, A Zuluaga, D Spalink… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study We present the first plastome phylogeny encompassing all 77 monocot
families, estimate branch support, and infer monocot‐wide divergence times and rates of …

Plastome evolution and phylogeny of Orchidaceae, with 24 new sequences

YK Kim, S Jo, SH Cheon, MJ Joo, JR Hong… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Phylogenomic resolution of order-and family-level monocot relationships using 602 single-copy nuclear genes and 1375 BUSCO genes

PR Timilsena, EK Wafula, CF Barrett… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We assess relationships among 192 species in all 12 monocot orders and 72 of 77 families,
using 602 conserved single-copy (CSC) genes and 1375 benchmarking single-copy …

Organellomic data sets confirm a cryptic consensus on (unrooted) land‐plant relationships and provide new insights into bryophyte molecular evolution

D Bell, Q Lin, WK Gerelle, S Joya… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Phylogenetic trees of bryophytes provide important evolutionary context for land
plants. However, published inferences of overall embryophyte relationships vary …

Using herbarium‐derived DNAs to assemble a large‐scale DNA barcode library for the vascular plants of Canada

ML Kuzmina, TWA Braukmann… - Applications in Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the study: Constructing complete, accurate plant DNA barcode reference libraries
can be logistically challenging for large‐scale floras. Here we demonstrate the promise and …

Mitochondrial genomic data are effective at placing mycoheterotrophic lineages in plant phylogeny

Q Lin, TWA Braukmann, M Soto Gomez… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fully mycoheterotrophic plants can be difficult to place in plant phylogeny due to elevated
substitution rates associated with photosynthesis loss. This potentially limits the …

Phylotranscriptomic analyses of mycoheterotrophic monocots show a continuum of convergent evolutionary changes in expressed nuclear genes from three …

PR Timilsena, CF Barrett… - Genome biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Mycoheterotrophy is an alternative nutritional strategy whereby plants obtain sugars and
other nutrients from soil fungi. Mycoheterotrophy and associated loss of photosynthesis have …

Phylogenetics of the mycoheterotrophic genus Thismia (Thismiaceae: Dioscoreales) with a focus on the Old World taxa: delineation of novel natural groups and …

EA Shepeleva, MI Schelkunov, M Hroneš… - Botanical Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Thismia is a genus of> 80 mycoheterotrophic species characterized by a peculiar
appearance and complex floral morphology. A significant proportion of the species and …