Root parasitic plant Orobanche aegyptiaca and shoot parasitic plant Cuscuta australis obtained Brassicaceae-specific strictosidine synthase-like genes by horizontal gene transfer

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Dale ^a,b   Qi, Jinfeng ^a   Yue, Jipei ^a,c   Huang, Jinling ^a,c   Sun, Ting ^a   Li, Suoping ^b   Wen, Jian Fan ^d   Hettenhausen, Christian ^a   Wu, Jinsong ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Zhuang, Huifu ^a   Wu, Jianqiang ^a   Sun, Guiling ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cuscuta; Horizontal gene transfer; New genes; Orobanche; Parasitic plants; Strictosidine Synthase Like Genes

Indexed keywords

BRASSICACEAE; CUSCUTA; CUSCUTA AUSTRALIS; OROBANCHE; OROBANCHE AEGYPTIACA;

LYASE; STRICTOSIDINE SYNTHETASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRASSICACEAE; CUSCUTA; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; OROBANCHE; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT ROOT;

BRASSICACEAE; CARBON-NITROGEN LYASES; CUSCUTA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; OROBANCHE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS;

EID: 84892384634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-19     Document Type: Article

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