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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Autores principales: 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
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32552824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00795-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32552824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00795-3

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