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Metabolic consequences of knocking out UGT85B1, the gene encoding the glucosyltransferase required for synthesis of dhurrin in Sorghum bicolor (L. Moench).
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Feb 2016
Blomstedt Cecilia K, O'Donnell Natalie H, Bjarnholt Nanna, Neale Alan D, Hamill John D, Møller Birger Lindberg, Gleadow Roslyn M
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Many important food crops produce cyanogenic glucosides as natural defense compounds to protect against herbivory or pathogen attack. It has also been suggested that these nitrogen-based secondary metabolites act as storage reserves of nitrogen. In sorghum, three key genes, CYP79A1, CYP71E1 and UGT85B1, encode two Cytochrome P450s and a glycosyltransferase, respectively, the enzymes essential for synthesis of the...
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