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. 2013 Oct;25(10):3636.
doi: 10.1105/tpc.113.251011. Epub 2013 Oct 18.

Plastid genes that were lost along the road to parasitism

Jennifer Lockhart  1
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Plastid genes that were lost along the road to parasitism

Jennifer Lockhart. Plant Cell. 2013 Oct.
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Orobanche gracilis, a holoparasitic broomrape, parasitizes a wide range of legumes and occasionally attacks crops. It robs its hosts of water and nutrients before emerging aboveground for reproduction, where it can grow up to 1.5 feet tall. O. gracilis possesses a remarkably reduced chloroplast genome attributable to massive gene loss and reconfiguration of the plastome structure. (Figure courtesy of K.F. Müller, University of Münster.)
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