Identification of BAHD acyltransferases associated with acylinositol biosynthesis in Solanum quitoense (naranjilla).

ABSTRACT: Plants make a variety of specialized metabolites that can mediate interactions with animals, microbes, and competitor plants. Understanding how plants synthesize these compounds enables studies of their biological roles by manipulating their synthesis in vivo as well as producing them in vitro. Acylsugars are a group of protective metabolites that accumulate in the trichomes of many Solanaceae family plants. Acylinositol biosynthesis is of interest because it appears to be restricted to a subgroup of species within the Solanum genus. Previous work characterized a triacylinositol acetyltransferase involved in acylinositol biosynthesis in the Andean fruit plant Solanum quitoense (lulo or naranjilla). We characterized three additional S. quitoense trichome expressed enzymes and

SUBMITTER: Leong BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9219006 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature