Something old, something new: Conserved enzymes and the evolution of novelty in plant specialized metabolism

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1512-1523

  Moghe, Gaurav D ^a   Last, Robert L ^a,b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME;

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84946231603     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00994     Document Type: Article

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