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A Feedback-Insensitive Isopropylmalate Synthase Affects Acylsugar Composition in Cultivated and Wild Tomato.
Plant physiology - 1 Nov 2015
Ning Jing, Moghe Gaurav D, Leong Bryan, Kim Jeongwoon, Ofner Itai, Wang Zhenzhen, Adams Christopher, Jones A Daniel, Zamir Dani, Last Robert L
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Acylsugars are insecticidal specialized metabolites produced in the glandular trichomes of plants in the Solanaceae family. In the tomato clade of the Solanum genus, acylsugars consist of aliphatic acids of different chain lengths esterified to sucrose, or less frequently to glucose. Through liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry screening of introgression lines, we previously identified a region of chromosome 8...
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