Journal article
Evolutionary and ecological insights from Cytinus: a plant within a plant
- Abstract:
- Cytinus is a group of plants that grow within other plants: a parasitic life cycle that has evolved just four times in the plant kingdom. Cytinus species are externally invisible for most of their life, emerging from their hosts only to flower and set seed. Owing to this cryptic life cycle, the genus is poorly understood and is likely to include several hitherto undescribed species, particularly in threatened forest habitat in Madagascar. At a time of unprecedented biodiversity loss and extinction, our work on Cytinus highlights the complex biology of parasitic plants and the importance of taxonomy-informed conservation.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1002/ppp3.10409
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- Wiley
- Journal:
- Plants People Planet More from this journal
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 308-317
- Publication date:
- 2023-07-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-06-08
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2572-2611
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English
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1499702
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- de Vega et al.
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- 2023
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- © 2023 The Authors. Plants, People, Planet published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of New Phytologist Foundation. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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