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

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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Main Authors: 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
Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Science::Biological sciences
Crocin Biosynthesis
Caffeine Biosynthesis
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146587
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English

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