Genome sequence of the medicinal plant Tropaeolum majus provides insights into flavonoid biosynthesis
Friedhoff, R.; Wittstock, U.; Pucker, B.
Show abstract
Tropaeolum majus is a very popular species around the world with an enormous number of commercially available varieties displaying various flower color patterns and growth characteristics. It is rich in phytochemicals such as glucotropaeolin, hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives, and flavonol glycosides. Here, we report a highly continuous genome sequence of T. majus and a comprehensive annotation of protein encoding genes suitable for comparative genomics. The potential for the exploration of individual gene functions in this valuable plant is demonstrated by an analysis of the flavonoid biosynthesis genes and their transcriptional regulators. Important players of the flavonol biosynthesis, including structural genes and a transcription factor, were identified that are required to produce precursors of phytomedically relevant flavonol glycosides. The genome sequence does not reveal an ortholog of the leucoanthocyanidin reductase encoding gene (LAR), which aligns with previous reports about the absence of this gene in many Brassicales species.
Matching journals
The top 6 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.
Similar papers in this journal
- Unravelling Rubber Tree Growth by Integrating GWAS and Biological Network-Based Approaches 96%
- Temporal Gene Expression in Apical Culms Shows Early Changes in Cell Wall Biosynthesis Genes in Sugarcane 96%
- Chromosome-level genome assemblies for two quinoa inbred lines from northern and southern highlands of Altiplano where quinoa originated 96%
Similar papers in this journal
Similar papers in this journal
Similar papers in this journal
- Two independent loss-of-function mutations in anthocyanidin synthase homeologous genes make sweet basil all green 96%
- Comparative Analysis of Small Secreted Peptide Signaling during Defense Response: Insights from Vascular and Non-Vascular Plants 96%
- Gene co-expression networks highlight key nodes associated with Ammonium nitrate in sugarcane 95%
Similar papers in this journal
- How drought and ploidy level shape gene expression and DNA methylation in Phragmites australis 95%
- Autopolyploidization affects transcript patterns and gene targeting frequencies in Physcomitrella 95%
- Multifactorial analysis of terminator performance on heterologous gene expression in Physcomitrella 94%
"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.