Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

The Gastrodia elata genome provides insights into plant adaptation to heterotrophy

  • Yuan Yuan,
  • Xiaohua Jin,
  • Juan Liu,
  • Xing Zhao,
  • Junhui Zhou,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Deyi Wang,
  • Changjiangsheng Lai,
  • Wei Xu,
  • Jingwen Huang,
  • Liangping Zha,
  • Dahui Liu,
  • Xiao Ma,
  • Li Wang,
  • Menyan Zhou,
  • Zhi Jiang,
  • Hubiao Meng,
  • Huasheng Peng,
  • Yuting Liang,
  • Ruiqiang Li,
  • Chao Jiang,
  • Yuyang Zhao,
  • Tiegui Nan,
  • Yan Jin,
  • Zhilai Zhan,
  • Jian Yang,
  • Wenkai Jiang,
  • Luqi Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03423-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

Read online

Gastrodia elata is an obligate mycoheterotrophic plant with highly reduced leaves and bracts in scape. Here, Yuan et al sequence and analyze its 1.06 Gb genome which provides insights in adaptation to a lifestyle of heterotrophy.