Wild tobacco genomes reveal the evolution of nicotine biosynthesis

Nicotine, the signature alkaloid of Nicotiana species responsible for the addictive properties of human tobacco smoking, functions as a defensive neurotoxin against attacking herbivores. However, the evolution of the genetic features that contributed to the assembly of the nicotine biosynthetic path...

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Published in:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Main Authors: Xu, Shuqing, Brockmöller, Thomas, Navarro-Quezada, Aura, Kuhl, Heiner, Gase, Klaus, Ling, Zhihao, Zhou, Wenwu, Kreitzer, Christoph, Stanke, Mario, Tang, Haibao, Lyons, Eric, Pandey, Priyanka, Pandey, Shree P., Timmermann, Bernd, Gaquerel, Emmanuel, Baldwin, Ian T.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2017
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5468653/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28536194
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1700073114
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