Tropane alkaloids and terpenes synthase genes of Datura stramonium (Solanaceae).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plants have evolved physical-chemical defense to prevent/diminish damage by their enemies. Chemical defense involves the synthesis' pathways of specialized toxic, repellent, or anti-nutritive metabolites to herbivores. Molecular evolutionary studies have revealed the origin of new genes, acquisition and functional diversification along time in different plant lineages.

Methods

Using bioinformatic tools we analyze gene divergence of tropane alkaloids (TAs) and terpene synthases (TPSs) in Datura stramonium and other species of Solanaceae; compared gene and amino acids sequence of TAs and TPSs on genomes, cDNA and proteins sequences of Viridiplantae. We analyzed two recently assembled genomes of D. stramonium (Ticumán and Teotihuacán), transcriptomes of

SUBMITTER: Velazquez-Marquez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8212831 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature