Wild tobacco genomes reveal the evolution of nicotine biosynthesis
Shuqing Xu, Thomas Brockmöller, Aura Navarro‐Quezada, Heiner Kuhl, Klaus Gase, Zhihao Ling, Wenwu Zhou, Christoph Kreitzer, Mario Stanke, Haibao Tang, Eric H. Lyons, Priyanka Pandey, Shree Prakash Pandey, Bernd Timmermann, Emmanuel Gaquerel, Ian Thomas Baldwin
This study sequenced wild tobacco genomes to uncover how nicotine biosynthesis evolved through gene duplications and transposable elements.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · May 23, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics