Microbial-type terpene synthase genes occur widely in nonseed land plants, but not in seed plants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 43, 2016, Pages 12328-12333

  Jia, Qidong ^a   Li, Guanglin ^a,b   Köllner, Tobias G ^c   Fu, Jianyu ^a,d   Chen, Xinlu ^a   Xiong, Wangdan ^a   Crandall Stotler, Barbara J ^e   Bowman, John L ^f   Weston, David J ^g   Zhang, Yong ^h   Chen, Li ^h   Xie, Yinlong ^h   Li, Fay Wei ⁱ   Rothfels, Carl J ⁱ   Larsson, Anders ^j   Graham, Sean W ^k   Stevenson, Dennis W ^l   Wong, Gane Ka Shu ^h,m   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^c   Chen, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^e SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^l NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Gene evolution; Nonseed plant; Specialized metabolism; Terpene synthase

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETASE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; PLANT PROTEIN; TERPENE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFERASE;

ANTHOCEROTOPHYTA; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYOPHYTA; ENDOPHYTIC FUNGUS; FERN; GREEN ALGA; HORNWORT; LIVERWORT; MOSS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEED PLANT; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; CHLOROPHYTA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EMBRYOPHYTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84992385081     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607973113     Document Type: Article

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