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Yongshuo Ma1, Yi Shang2,3
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Abstract:
This Highlight features a recent study showing that the soybean BAHD-type soyasaponin acetyltransferase GmSSAcT1 is responsible for three or four sequential acetylation steps in type-A soyasaponin biosynthesis and that loss of GmSSAcT1 function strongly inhibits soybean seed germination.
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