Tandem gene duplications drive divergent evolution of caffeine and crocin biosynthetic pathways in p...
Tandem gene duplications drive divergent evolution of caffeine and crocin biosynthetic pathways in plants
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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 and Song, Jingyuan
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London: BioMed Central Ltd
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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 related plant genera (Coffea, Camellia, Paullinia, and Ilex for caff...
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Tandem gene duplications drive divergent evolution of caffeine and crocin biosynthetic pathways in plants
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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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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_582ef1ea7a97416692800ada6e132037
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_582ef1ea7a97416692800ada6e132037
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1741-7007
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1741-7007
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10.1186/s12915-020-00795-3
