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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages 21-34Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2013.02.001
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Flavonoid; Biosynthesis; Functional genomics; Arabidopsis thaliana
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25440148] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Flavonoids are representative plant secondary products. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, at least 54 flavonoid molecules (35 flavonols, 11 anthocyanins and 8 proanthocyanidins) are found. Scaffold structures of flavonoids in Arabidopsis are relatively simple. These include kaempferol, quercetin and isorhamnetin for flavonols, cyanidin for anthocyanins and epicatechin for proanthocyanidins. The chemical diversity of flavonoids increases enormously by tailoring reactions which modify these scaffolds, including glycosylation, methylation and acylation. Genes responsible for the formation of flavonoid aglycone structures and their subsequent modification reactions have been extensively characterized by functional genomic efforts - mostly the integration of transcriptomics and metabolic profiling followed by reverse genetic experimentation. This review describes the state-of-art of flavonoid biosynthetic pathway in Arabidopsis regarding both structural and genetic diversity, focusing on the genes encoding enzymes for the biosynthetic reactions and vacuole translocation. (C) 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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