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Natural product chemistry meets genetics: when is a genotype a chemotype?
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry - 10 Sept 2008
Desjardins Anne E
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The chemotype of a microbial or plant species has traditionally been defined as its profile of natural products, and the genotype has been defined as its genetic constitution or DNA sequence. The purpose of this perspective is to discuss applications of DNA genotyping, particularly by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplification methods, to predicting natural product chemotypes of fungi and plants of importance...
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