Nature Communications (Jul 2018)
Large-scale gene losses underlie the genome evolution of parasitic plant Cuscuta australis
- Guiling Sun,
- Yuxing Xu,
- Hui Liu,
- Ting Sun,
- Jingxiong Zhang,
- Christian Hettenhausen,
- Guojing Shen,
- Jinfeng Qi,
- Yan Qin,
- Jing Li,
- Lei Wang,
- Wei Chang,
- Zhenhua Guo,
- Ian T. Baldwin,
- Jianqiang Wu
Affiliations
- Guiling Sun
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yuxing Xu
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hui Liu
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ting Sun
- Institute of Plant Stress Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Department of Biology, Henan University
- Jingxiong Zhang
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Christian Hettenhausen
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guojing Shen
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jinfeng Qi
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yan Qin
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jing Li
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lei Wang
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wei Chang
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhenhua Guo
- The Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ian T. Baldwin
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
- Jianqiang Wu
- Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04721-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Dodders (Cuscuta spp., Convolvulaceae) are root- and leafless parasitic plants. Here, the authors sequence the genome of Cuscuta australis and find remarkable gene loss associated with parasitic lifestyle and large changes in body plan.
