This Weird Parasitic ‘Mushroom’ Plant Stops Photosynthesis – And It’s Flourishing
A strange-looking parasitic plant has thrown off all the machinery of photosynthesis – and yet it has found a way to thrive. A new analysis of seven Balanophora species found that these crazy plants reduced their plastid genomes, or plastomes – the parts of their cells that oversee photosynthesis – by a factor of 10. … Read more