Characterization of a recently evolved flavonol-phenylacyltransferase gene provides signatures of natural light selection in Brassicaceae

Protection from UV-B is critical for land plant survival. Here Tohge et al. show that saiginols, a novel class of flavonols that efficiently absorb UV-B, accumulate in Arabidopsisaccessions collected from high irradiance regions and identify a flavonol phenylacyltransferase gene required for saigino...

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Main Authors: Takayuki Tohge, Regina Wendenburg, Hirofumi Ishihara, Ryo Nakabayashi, Mutsumi Watanabe, Ronan Sulpice, Rainer Hoefgen, Hiromitsu Takayama, Kazuki Saito, Mark Stitt, Alisdair R. Fernie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12399