TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vogel, Alexander
AU  - Schwacke, Rainer
AU  - Denton, Alisandra K.
AU  - Usadel, Björn
AU  - Hollmann, Julien
AU  - Fischer, Karsten
AU  - Bolger, Anthony
AU  - Schmidt, Maximilian H.-W.
AU  - Bolger, Marie
AU  - Gundlach, Heidrun
AU  - Mayer, Klaus F. X.
AU  - Weiss-Schneeweiss, Hanna
AU  - Temsch, Eva M.
AU  - Krause, Kirsten
TI  - Footprints of parasitism in the genome of the parasitic flowering plant Cuscuta campestris
JO  - Nature Communications
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
SN  - 2041-1723
CY  - [London]
PB  - Nature Publishing Group UK
M1  - FZJ-2019-00918
SP  - 2515
PY  - 2018
AB  - A parasitic lifestyle, where plants procure some or all of their nutrients from other living plants, has evolved independently in many dicotyledonous plant families and is a major threat for agriculture globally. Nevertheless, no genome sequence of a parasitic plant has been reported to date. Here we describe the genome sequence of the parasitic field dodder, Cuscuta campestris. The genome contains signatures of a fairly recent whole-genome duplication and lacks genes for pathways superfluous to a parasitic lifestyle. Specifically, genes needed for high photosynthetic activity are lost, explaining the low photosynthesis rates displayed by the parasite. Moreover, several genes involved in nutrient uptake processes from the soil are lost. On the other hand, evidence for horizontal gene transfer by way of genomic DNA integration from the parasite’s hosts is found. We conclude that the parasitic lifestyle has left characteristic footprints in the C. campestris genome
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:29955043
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000436548700006
DO  - DOI:10.1038/s41467-018-04344-z
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/860132
ER  -