Complete chloroplast genome sequence of Holoparasite Cistanche Deserticola (Orobanchaceae) reveals gene loss and horizontal gene transfer from Its host Haloxylon Ammodendron (Chenopodiaceae)
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Li, XiZhang, Ti-Cao
Qiao, Qin
Ren, Zhumei
Zhao, Jiayuan
Yonezawa, Takahiro
Hasegawa, Masami
Crabbe, M. James C.
Li, Jianqiang
Zhong, Yang
Sun, Meng-xiang
Issue Date
2013
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The central function of chloroplasts is to carry out photosynthesis, and its gene content and structure are highly conserved across land plants. Parasitic plants, which have reduced photosynthetic ability, suffer gene losses from the chloroplast (cp) genome accompanied by the relaxation of selective constraints. Compared with the rapid rise in the number of cp genome sequences of photosynthetic organisms, there are limited data sets from parasitic plants. The authors report the complete sequence of the cp genome of Cistanche deserticola, a holoparasitic desert species belonging to the family Orobanchaceae.Citation
Li, X. et al. (2013) 'Complete Chloroplast genome sequence of Holoparasite Cistanche Deserticola (Orobanchaceae) reveals gene loss and horizontal gene transfer from its host Haloxylon Ammodendron (Chenopodiaceae)', PLoS ONE, 8(3):e58747Publisher
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http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058747Type
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1932-6203ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1371/journal.pone.0058747
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