Identification of Genes Involved in Natural Product Biosynthesis in Pomegranate
October 28, 2011| |
The peel of pomegranate fruit is high in natural plant products like hydrolysable tannins and anthocyanins. These plant products have important roles in human nutrition and fruit quality, however, information about the genes involved in the biosynthesis of these products are very limited. Thus, Nadia Nicole Ono from the University of California Davis, and colleagues sequenced a portion of pomegranate's genetic code (transcriptome) that is transcribed into RNA molecules.
The sequences provided hints about possible genes responsible for the biosynthesis and regulation of hydolyzable tannin, anthocyanin, flavonoid, terpenoid, and fatty acid. The pomegranate fruit peel transcriptome set provides a valuable platform for natural product biosynthetic gene and marker discovery in pomegranate.
The work also proves that transcriptome sequencing is an economical and effective approach in studying natural product biosynthesis, identification of desirable genes for agriculture, and discovering of molecular markers for non-model specialty crops.
Read the full article at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-7909.2011.01073.x/abstract.
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