Lee Chae1, Taehyong Kim, Ricardo Nilo-Poyanco

  • 1Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 3, 2014
PubMed
まとめ

植物ゲノムは,主代謝遺伝子と特異代謝遺伝子の異なる進化パターンを示しています. 特殊な代謝遺伝子は,独特のゲノムクラスタリングと共同発現により,さらに拡大し,新しい植物化合物の発見を助けました.

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