Defense-related phenylpropanoid biosynthetic gene clusters in rice

• 作者: Guy Polturak Anne Osbourn
• 来源期刊: 科学通报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
• 页码范围: 13-16
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Since colonising land,plants have undergone massive metabolic diversification.This is reflected by the numbers of metabolites that they collectively produce (estimated to be 105 to 106) [1,2];also,by our increasing awareness of the thousands of uncharacterised genes within plant genomes with predicted roles in specialised metabolism (approximately 20％) [3].The ～200,000 plant metabo-lites that have been reported thus far from nature [4] are likely to represent just the tip of the iceberg.An enormous amount of meta-bolic "dark matter" encoded within the DNA instruction manual of the plant kingdom therefore remains to be discovered.