Tandem gene duplications drive divergent evolution of caffeine and crocin biosynthetic pathways in plants

BACKGROUND: Plants have evolved a panoply of specialized metabolites that increase their environmental fitness. Two examples are caffeine, a purine psychotropic alkaloid, and crocins, a group of glycosylated apocarotenoid pigments. Both classes of compounds are found in a handful of distantly relate...

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Pubblicato in:BMC Biol
Autori principali: Xu, Zhichao, Pu, Xiangdong, Gao, Ranran, Demurtas, Olivia Costantina, Fleck, Steven J., Richter, Michaela, He, Chunnian, Ji, Aijia, Sun, Wei, Kong, Jianqiang, Hu, Kaizhi, Ren, Fengming, Song, Jiejie, Wang, Zhe, Gao, Ting, Xiong, Chao, Yu, Haoying, Xin, Tianyi, Albert, Victor A., Giuliano, Giovanni, Chen, Shilin, Song, Jingyuan
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2020
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302004/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32552824
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00795-3
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