The molecular evolution of vitamin C biosynthesis in plants
What are the molecular evolutionary patterns of the GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase gene in plants?
Plant Science from Cell Biology to Ecosystems
What are the molecular evolutionary patterns of the GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase gene in plants?
Selection on duplicated plant volatile genes is thought to have enabled the evolution of floral volatiles crucial to plant-insect interactions.
Vuosku and colleagues find an evolutionarily old gymnosperm, Scots pine, has a bifunctional SPDS able to produce both Spd and Spm, while angiosperms seem to depend on separate enzymes in Spd and Spm biosynthesis.