Beneficial services of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi–from ecology to application

M Chen, M Arato, L Borghi, E Nouri… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is the most common symbiotic association of plants with
microbes. AM fungi occur in the majority of natural habitats and they provide a range of …

Structural diversity among plastid genomes of land plants

JP Mower, TL Vickrey - Advances in botanical research, 2018 - Elsevier
The plastome of land plants is often considered to be highly conserved in sequence,
structure, and content. This is particularly true for nonvascular land plants, for which few …

GetOrganelle: a fast and versatile toolkit for accurate de novo assembly of organelle genomes

JJ Jin, WB Yu, JB Yang, Y Song, CW DePamphilis… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
GetOrganelle is a state-of-the-art toolkit to accurately assemble organelle genomes from
whole genome sequencing data. It recruits organelle-associated reads using a modified …

GetOrganelle: a simple and fast pipeline for de novo assembly of a complete circular chloroplast genome using genome skimming data

JJ Jian, WB Yu, JB Yang, Y Song, TS Yi, DZ Li - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Background: Chloroplast genes and genomes are the most important genomic data for plant
phylogeny and DNA barcoding. Since the rapid development of high throughput sequencing …

The Gastrodia elata genome provides insights into plant adaptation to heterotrophy

Y Yuan, X Jin, J Liu, X Zhao, J Zhou, X Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We present the 1.06 Gb sequenced genome of Gastrodia elata, an obligate
mycoheterotrophic plant, which contains 18,969 protein-coding genes. Many genes …

Genomes of leafy and leafless Platanthera orchids illuminate the evolution of mycoheterotrophy

MH Li, KW Liu, Z Li, HC Lu, QL Ye, D Zhang, JY Wang… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Molecular evolution of plastid genomes in parasitic flowering plants

S Wicke, J Naumann - Advances in botanical research, 2018 - Elsevier
Heterotrophic carbon acquisition is the most unusual lifestyle in plants, whereby the
heterotrophs obtain water, nutrients, and macromolecules from either another plant or a …

Plastid NDH Pseudogenization and Gene Loss in a Recently Derived Lineage from the Largest Hemiparasitic Plant Genus Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae)

X Li, JB Yang, H Wang, Y Song… - Plant and Cell …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The plastid genome (plastome) is highly conserved in both gene order and content and has
a lower mutation rate than the nuclear genome. However, the plastome is more variable in …

Invited Review Beyond parasitic convergence: unravelling the evolution of the organellar genomes in holoparasites

MV Sanchez-Puerta, LF Ceriotti… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background The molecular evolution of organellar genomes in angiosperms has been
studied extensively, with some lineages, such as parasitic ones, displaying unique …

More than a spiny morphology: plastome variation in the prickly pear cacti (Opuntieae)

M Köhler, M Reginato, JJ Jin, LC Majure - Annals of Botany, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Plastid genomes (plastomes) have long been recognized as highly conserved
in their overall structure, size, gene arrangement and content among land plants. However …