Characterization of a recently evolved flavonol-phenylacyltransferase gene provides signatures of natural light selection in Brassicaceae

oleh: Takayuki Tohge, Regina Wendenburg, Hirofumi Ishihara, Ryo Nakabayashi, Mutsumi Watanabe, Ronan Sulpice, Rainer Hoefgen, Hiromitsu Takayama, Kazuki Saito, Mark Stitt, Alisdair R. Fernie

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-08-01

Deskripsi

Protection from UV-B is critical for land plant survival. Here Tohge et al. show that saiginols, a novel class of flavonols that efficiently absorb UV-B, accumulate in Arabidopsisaccessions collected from high irradiance regions and identify a flavonol phenylacyltransferase gene required for saiginol production.