The factors affecting the evolution of the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway genes in monocot and dicot plant species.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The available data demonstrate that even in universal metabolic pathways, some species-specific regulatory features of structural genes are present. For instance, in the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway (ABP), genes may be regulated by ABP-specific regulatory factors, and their expression levels may be strongly associated with anthocyanin pigmentation, or they may be expressed independently of pigmentation. A dataset of orthologous ABP genes (Chs, Chi, F3h, F3'h, Dfr, Ans) from monocot and dicot plant species that have distinct gene regulation patterns and different types of pollination was constructed to test whether these factors affect the evolution of the genes.

Results

Using a maximum likelihood approach, we demonstrated that although the whole set of the ABP

SUBMITTER: Shoeva OY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5751542 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature