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The family of terpene synthases in plants: a mid-size family of genes for specialized metabolism that is highly diversified throughout the kingdom.

The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Apr 2011

Chen Feng, Tholl Dorothea, Bohlmann Jörg, Pichersky Eran

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Some plant terpenes such as sterols and carotenes are part of primary metabolism and found essentially in all plants. However, the majority of the terpenes found in plants are classified as 'secondary' compounds, those chemicals whose synthesis has evolved in plants as a result of selection for increased fitness via better adaptation to the local ecological niche of each species. Thousands of such terpenes have...

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PMID: 21443633
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04520.x

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