The origin and evolution of the diosgenin biosynthetic pathway in yam

The origin and evolution of the diosgenin biosynthetic pathway in yam

Diosgenin, mainly produced by Dioscorea species, is a traditional precursor of most hormonal drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. The mechanisms that underlie the origin and evolution of diosgenin biosynthesis in plants remain unclear. After sequencing the whole genome of Dioscorea zingiberensis, w...

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Main Authors: Jian Cheng, Jing Chen, Xiaonan Liu, Xiangchen Li, Weixiong Zhang, Zhubo Dai, Lina Lu, Xiang Zhou, Jing Cai, Xueli Zhang, Huifeng Jiang, Yanhe Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Plant Communications
Subjects:
metabolic engineering
genomic evolution
diosgenin
synthetic biology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590346220301024

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