Revealing the Dynamic History of Parasitic Plant Plastomes via Structural Characterization, Comparative Analysis, and Phylogenomics
Lubna, Sajjad Asaf, Rahmatullah Jan, Saleem Asif, Saqib Bilal, Kyung-Min Kim, In-Jung Lee, Ahmed AL-Harrasi · 2024
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Lubna and co-authors trace the history of plastid genomes in parasitic plants, in a 2024 study. When plants turn parasitic, their plastid genomes often bear clear marks of the shift, since plastids run photosynthesis. Studying those marks reveals how parasitism reshapes plant genomes and drives genome shrinkage. The team set out to map the pattern across many lineages.
They analyze and compare the plastomes of 113 parasitic plants from different families. One family of half-parasites shows the largest plastome size with almost no gene loss. Full parasites, by contrast, typically have much smaller plastomes. Some families show strong reductions of their own. The structural contrasts let the authors reconstruct how these genomes changed over evolution.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lubna, Sajjad Asaf, Rahmatullah Jan, Saleem Asif, Saqib Bilal, Kyung-Min Kim, In-Jung Lee, Ahmed AL-Harrasi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |