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Balanophora genomes display massively convergent evolution with other extreme holoparasites and provide novel insights into parasite-host interactions | Nature Plants

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By Xiaoli Chen, Yuxing Xu, Satoko Yoshida, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Yannan Fan, Runxian Yu, Zhong-Jian Liu, Xin L. Liu, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Jianqiang Wu, Sean Graham, Dishen Shi
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Abstract Parasitic plants have evolved to be subtly or severely dependent on host plants to complete their life cycle. To provide new insights into the biology of parasitic plants in general, we assembled genomes for members of the sandalwood order Santalales, including a stem hemiparasite (Scurrula) and two highly modified root holoparasites (Balanophora) that possess chimaeric host–parasite tubers.
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