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Gloriosa superba and Colchicum autumnale multi-tissue transcriptome analysis for colchicine pathway and rhizome development candidate gene identification
2019-05-14
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background The continued emergence of side-effects caused by synthetic drugs underscores the need for plant-based drugs in human medicine. Medicinal rhizomatous crops are a “goldmine for modern drugs”, and include such species as Gloriosa superba L. and Colchicum autumnale L., the producers of colchicine, a plant-based medicine. The natural isomer of bioactive colchicine is used to eff...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a568af5b-432a-5fd7-ac48-cdc69a5abd93
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.9594/v1
