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The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

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