The molecular evolution of vitamin C biosynthesis in plants
What are the molecular evolutionary patterns of the GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase gene in plants?
Tag: gene duplication
Genes involved in the biosynthesis of Chiloglottis semiochemicals
Selection on duplicated plant volatile genes is thought to have enabled the evolution of floral volatiles crucial to plant-insect interactions.
Divergent evolution of the chalcone synthase gene family in Phalaenopsis orchids
Evolution and function of Scots pine aminopropyltransferases
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.
