All roads lead to Rome: alternative biosynthetic routes in plant specialised metabolism

Davies, Kevin; André, Christelle M.

doi:10.1111/nph.18577

New Phytologist

2022

DOI: 10.1111/nph.18577

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All roads lead to Rome: alternative biosynthetic routes in plant specialised metabolism

Kevin Davies

Christelle M. André

Abstract: This article is a Commentary on T‐T. Zhu et al. (2023), 237: 515–531.

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The evolution of flavonoid biosynthesis

Davies,

Andre,

Kulshrestha

et al. 2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The flavonoid pathway is characteristic of land plants and a central biosynthetic component enabling life in a terrestrial environment. Flavonoids provide tolerance to both abiotic and biotic stresses and facilitate beneficial relationships, such as signalling to symbiont microorganisms, or attracting pollinators and seed dispersal agents. The biosynthetic pathway shows great diversity across species, resulting principally from repeated biosynthetic gene duplication and neofunctionalization events during evolution. Such events may reflect a selection for new flavonoid structures with novel functions that enable occupancy of varied ecological niches. However, the biochemical and genetic diversity of the pathway also likely resulted from evolution along parallel trends across land plant lineages, producing variant compounds with similar biological functions. Analyses of the wide range of whole-plant genome sequences now available, particularly for archegoniate plants, have enabled proposals on which genes were ancestral to land plants and which arose within the land plant lineages. In this review, we discuss the emerging proposals for how the flavonoid pathway may have evolved and diversified. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The evolution of plant metabolism’.

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The evolution of flavonoid biosynthesis

Davies,

Andre,

Kulshrestha

et al. 2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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All roads lead to Rome: alternative biosynthetic routes in plant specialised metabolism

Abstract: This article is a Commentary on T‐T. Zhu et al. (2023), 237: 515–531.

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The evolution of flavonoid biosynthesis

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