Photosynthesis inCuscuta Reflexa: A Total Plant Parasite

Lack of a functional plastid tRNACysgene

Lack of a functional plastid tRNACysgene is associated with loss of photosynthesis in a lineage of parasitic plants

✍ Garret W. Taylor; Kenneth H. Wolfe; Clifford W. Morden; Claude W. dePamphilis; J 📂 Article 📅 1991 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 414 KB

We recently reported that the gene for chloroplast tRNA(Cys)(GCA) is a pseudogene in the plastid DNA of Epifagus virginiana, a non-photosynthetic parasitic flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae. Since this is the only tRNA(Cys) gene in the plastid genome, and since Epifagus appears to possess