Publications by authors named "Lilei Tang"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how the transition from autotrophy (making their own food) to heterotrophy (relying on other plants for nourishment) affects the genetic material of hemiparasitic plants, focusing on the Loranthaceae family.
- It finds that obligate stem-parasites within this family experience more significant plastome degradation compared to facultative root-parasites, showcasing increased loss of genes and other genetic changes during evolution.
- The research concludes that the dependence on host plants and branching evolution (cladogenesis) plays a crucial role in this plastome degradation, enhancing our understanding of the evolution of hemiparasitic plants.
Background: has been widely used as a traditional Chinese medicine as well as a healthy food. Because of its highly variable morphology, this medicinal plant is often difficult to distinguish from other related verticillate leaf types of the species. The contaminants in products not only decrease the products' quality but also threaten consumer safety, seriously inhibiting the industrial application of .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Paris yunnanensis (Melanthiaceae) is a traditional Chinese medicinal plant of significant pharmaceutical importance. Due to previous taxonomic confusion, a congeneric species, Paris liiana, has been mistaken for P. yunnanensis and cultivated on a large scale, leading to the mixing of commercial products (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlantaginaceae, consisting of 12 tribes, is a diverse, cosmopolitan family. To date, the inter-tribal relationships of this family have been unresolved, and the plastome structure and composition within Plantaginaceae have seldom been comprehensively investigated. In this study, we compared the plastomes from 41 Plantaginaceae species (including 6 newly sequenced samples and 35 publicly representative species) representing 11 tribes.
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