The parasitic plant manages to go without a component of mitochondria found in all other multicellular life forms.

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The plant Lophophytum pilfers mitochondrial genes from the species it parasitizes.

Researchers report the first example of large-scale RNA-based communication between species—a parasitic plant and two of its hosts.