BMC Plant Biology, 2007 Background Cynara cardunculus L. is an edible plant of pharmaceutical interest, in particular with respect to the polyphenolic content of its leaves. It includes three taxa: globe artichoke, cultivated cardoon, and wild cardoon.
Hehn Alain +7 more
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Pleiotropic and Epistatic Network-Based Discovery: Integrated Networks for Target Gene Discovery [PDF]
, 2018 Biological organisms are complex systems that are composed of functional networks of interacting molecules and macro-molecules. Complex phenotypes are the result of orchestrated, hierarchical, heterogeneous collections of expressed genomic variants ...
DiFazio, Stephen +14 more
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Unusual ancestry of dehydratases associated with quinate catabolism in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1995 Catabolism of quinate to protocatechuate requires the consecutive action of quinate dehydrogenase (QuiA), dehydroquinate dehydratase (QuiB), and dehydroshikimate dehyratase (QuiC), Genes for catabolism of protocatechuate are encoded by the pca operon in the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus chromosome.
D A, Elsemore, L N, Ornston
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The involvement of phenolic metabolism in superficial scald development in ‘Wujiuxiang’ pear
Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, 2020 Superficial scald often occurs after a long term of cold storage in apples and pears. In this study, the superficial scald index, the contents of major phenolic compounds, polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity and its related genes expression in peel was ...
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Metabolites, 2021 The in utero environment during pregnancy has important implications for the developing health of the child. We aim to examine the potential impact of maternal metabolome at two different timepoints in pregnancy on offspring respiratory health in early ...
Mengna Huang +8 more
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Exploiting members of the BAHD acyltransferase family to synthesize multiple hydroxycinnamate and benzoate conjugates in yeast [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: BAHD acyltransferases, named after the first four biochemically characterized enzymes of the group, are plant-specific enzymes that catalyze the transfer of coenzyme A-activated donors onto various acceptor molecules. They are responsible for
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Metabolic and molecular changes of the phenylpropanoid pathway in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) lines carrying different Solanum pennellii wild Chromosomal regions [PDF]
, 2016 Solanum lycopersicum represents an important dietary source of bioactive compounds including the antioxidants flavonoids and phenolic acids. We previously identified two genotypes (IL7-3 and IL12-4) carrying loci from the wild species Solanum pennellii ...
BARONE, AMALIA +8 more
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Biologia Plantarum, 2013 In this work, we report the ectopic expression of the Osmyb4 rice gene, encoding the Myb4 transcription factor, in Nicotiana tabacum and Salvia sclarea.
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Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of appressorium development by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2012 The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most significant pathogens affecting global food security. To cause rice blast disease the fungus elaborates a specialised infection structure called an appressorium.
Darren M Soanes +4 more
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Silencing CAFFEOYL SHIKIMATE ESTERASE affects lignification and improves saccharification in poplar [PDF]
, 2017 Caffeoyl shikimate esterase (CSE) was recently shown to play an essential role in lignin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and later in Medicago truncatula.
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