Production of bioactive diterpenoids in the Euphorbiaceae depends on evolutionarily conserved gene clusters

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3286-3298

  King, Andrew J ^a   Brown, Geoffrey D ^b   Gilday, Alison D ^a   Larson, Tony R ^a   Graham, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASBENE SYNTHETASE; CYTOCHROME P450; DITERPENE; LYASE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; EUPHORBIACEAE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; RICINUS;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DITERPENES; EUPHORBIACEAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; PHYLOGENY; RICINUS;

EID: 84907478493     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.129668     Document Type: Article

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