Plant metabolic clusters - from genetics to genomics

Hans-Wilhelm Nuetzmann, Ancheng Huang, Anne Osbourn

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Abstract

Contents 771 I. 771 II. 772 III. 780 IV. 781 V. 786 786 References 786 SUMMARY: Plant natural products are of great value for agriculture, medicine and a wide range of other industrial applications. The discovery of new plant natural product pathways is currently being revolutionized by two key developments. First, breakthroughs in sequencing technology and reduced cost of sequencing are accelerating the ability to find enzymes and pathways for the biosynthesis of new natural products by identifying the underlying genes. Second, there are now multiple examples in which the genes encoding certain natural product pathways have been found to be grouped together in biosynthetic gene clusters within plant genomes. These advances are now making it possible to develop strategies for systematically mining multiple plant genomes for the discovery of new enzymes, pathways and chemistries. Increased knowledge of the features of plant metabolic gene clusters - architecture, regulation and assembly - will be instrumental in expediting natural product discovery. This review summarizes progress in this area.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)771-89
Number of pages19
JournalNew Phytologist
Volume211
Issue number3
Early online date26 Apr 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jul 2016

Keywords

  • Journal Article
  • Review

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