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The nonmevalonate pathway supports both monoterpene and sesquiterpene formation in snapdragon flowersNatalia Dudareva
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:933-8. 2005..The trafficking of IPP occurs unidirectionally from the plastids to cytosol. The MEP pathway operates in a rhythmic manner controlled by the circadian clock, which determines the rhythmicity of terpenoid emission...
Developmental regulation of methyl benzoate biosynthesis and emission in snapdragon flowersN Dudareva
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Plant Cell 12:949-61. 2000..Linear regression analysis revealed that production of methyl benzoate is regulated by the amount of benzoic acid and the amount of BAMT protein, which in turn is regulated at the transcriptional level...
Biochemistry of plant volatilesNatalia Dudareva
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Plant Physiol 135:1893-902. 2004
(E)-beta-ocimene and myrcene synthase genes of floral scent biosynthesis in snapdragon: function and expression of three terpene synthase genes of a new terpene synthase subfamilyNatalia Dudareva
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Plant Cell 15:1227-41. 2003..Analyses of tissue-specific, developmental, and rhythmic expression of these monoterpene synthase genes in snapdragon flowers revealed coordinated regulation of phenylpropanoid and isoprenoid scent production...
Regulation of methylbenzoate emission after pollination in snapdragon and petunia flowersFlorence Negre
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Plant Cell 15:2992-3006. 2003....
Cellular and subcellular localization of S-adenosyl-L-methionine:benzoic acid carboxyl methyltransferase, the enzyme responsible for biosynthesis of the volatile ester methylbenzoate in snapdragon flowersN Kolosova
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Plant Physiol 126:956-64. 2001..The concentration of scent production on flower surfaces that face the pollinators during landing may increase pollination efficiency and also help to minimize the biosynthetic cost of advertising for pollinators...
Regulation of circadian methyl benzoate emission in diurnally and nocturnally emitting plantsN Kolosova
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Plant Cell 13:2333-47. 2001..Our results also suggest that similar molecular mechanisms are involved in the regulation of methyl benzoate production in diurnally (snapdragon) and nocturnally (tobacco and petunia) emitting plants...
The small subunit of snapdragon geranyl diphosphate synthase modifies the chain length specificity of tobacco geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase in plantaIrina Orlova
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Plant Cell 21:4002-17. 2009..These results provide genetic evidence that GPPS.SSU modifies the chain length specificity of phylogenetically distant GGPPS and can modulate IPP flux distribution between GPP and GGPP synthesis in planta...
Two nearly identical terpene synthases catalyze the formation of nerolidol and linalool in snapdragon flowersDinesh A Nagegowda
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Plant J 55:224-39. 2008..By directing nearly identical bifunctional enzymes to more than one cellular compartment, plants extend the range of available substrates for enzyme utilization, thus increasing the diversity of the metabolites produced...
Reduction of benzenoid synthesis in petunia flowers reveals multiple pathways to benzoic acid and enhancement in auxin transportIrina Orlova
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Plant Cell 18:3458-75. 2006..This suggests that BPBT is involved in metabolic processes in vegetative tissues as well...
Metabolic engineering of plant volatilesNatalia Dudareva
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 19:181-9. 2008..These studies have also revealed challenges and limitations which will be likely surmounted as our understanding of plant volatile network improves...
RNAi suppression of Arogenate Dehydratase1 reveals that phenylalanine is synthesized predominantly via the arogenate pathway in petunia petalsHiroshi Maeda
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Plant Cell 22:832-49. 2010..These results provide genetic evidence that Phe is synthesized predominantly via arogenate in petunia petals and uncover a novel posttranscriptional regulation of the shikimate pathway...
Practical applications of research into the regulation of plant volatile emissionNatalia Dudareva
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Curr Opin Plant Biol 8:113-8. 2005..Pioneering attempts to alter plant volatile profiles have uncovered the complexity of networks and their regulation, and have built new avenues for future successful metabolic engineering...
Novel S-adenosyl-L-methionine:salicylic acid carboxyl methyltransferase, an enzyme responsible for biosynthesis of methyl salicylate and methyl benzoate, is not involved in floral scent production in snapdragon flowersFlorence Negre
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Arch Biochem Biophys 406:261-70. 2002..Expression of SAMT in petal tissue was found to be induced by salicylic and jasmonic acid treatments...
A kinetic model describes metabolic response to perturbations and distribution of flux control in the benzenoid network of Petunia hybridaAmy Marshall Colón
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Plant J 62:64-76. 2010..In contrast, control of flux through the beta-oxidative and non-beta-oxidative pathways is highly distributed...
Involvement of snapdragon benzaldehyde dehydrogenase in benzoic acid biosynthesisMichael C Long
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Plant J 59:256-65. 2009..GFP localization and immunogold labeling studies show that this biochemical step occurs in the mitochondria, raising a question about the role of subcellular compartmentalization in BA biosynthesis...
The floral volatile, methyl benzoate, from snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) triggers phytotoxic effects in Arabidopsis thalianaJun ichiro Horiuchi
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Planta 226:1-10. 2007..1 and 56.2%, respectively, relative to untreated control mutants...
An important role of a BAHD acyl transferase-like protein in plant innate immunityZuyu Zheng
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, 915 W State Street, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2054, USA
Plant J 57:1040-53. 2009..These results suggest that there is natural variation among Arabidopsis ecotypes with respect to the antagonistic cross-talk between defense signaling pathways against various types of microbial pathogens...
Metabolomics of plant volatilesAnthony V Qualley
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Methods Mol Biol 553:329-43. 2009..A variety of resources can be used to identify unknown compounds in a given volatile sample including >600,000 compounds with known mass spectra catalogued in searchable mass spectral libraries...
Understanding in vivo benzenoid metabolism in petunia petal tissueJennifer Boatright
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Plant Physiol 135:1993-2011. 2004....
Plant phenylacetaldehyde synthase is a bifunctional homotetrameric enzyme that catalyzes phenylalanine decarboxylation and oxidationYasuhisa Kaminaga
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2010, USA
J Biol Chem 281:23357-66. 2006..2 mM. PAAS is a bifunctional enzyme that catalyzes the unprecedented efficient coupling of phenylalanine decarboxylation to oxidation, generating phenylacetaldehyde, CO2, ammonia, and hydrogen peroxide in stoichiometric amounts...
Formation of monoterpenes in Antirrhinum majus and Clarkia breweri flowers involves heterodimeric geranyl diphosphate synthasesDorothea Tholl
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, D 007745 Jena, Germany
Plant Cell 16:977-92. 2004..LSU mRNA levels did not, indicating that the levels of GPPS.SSU, but not GPPS.LSU, might play a key role in regulating the formation of GPPS and, thus, monoterpene biosynthesis...
Floral benzenoid carboxyl methyltransferases: from in vitro to in planta functionUta Effmert
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, D-18059 Rostock, Germany
Phytochemistry 66:1211-30. 2005....
Interlinking showy traits: co-engineering of scent and colour biosynthesis in flowersMichal Moyal Ben Zvi
The Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Plant Biotechnol J 6:403-15. 2008..The use of a regulatory factor that activates scent production creates a new biotechnological strategy for the metabolic architecture of fragrance, leading to the creation of novel genetic variability for breeding purposes...
The multiple phenylpropene synthases in both Clarkia breweri and Petunia hybrida represent two distinct protein lineagesTakao Koeduka
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 830 North University Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1048, USA
Plant J 54:362-74. 2008..Our results indicate that plant enzymes with EGS and IGS activities have arisen multiple times and in different protein lineages...
Evolution of Cinnamate/p-coumarate carboxyl methyltransferases and their role in the biosynthesis of methylcinnamateJeremy Kapteyn
Department of Plant Sciences and BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Bioresearch, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Plant Cell 19:3212-29. 2007..Site-directed mutagenesis of specific residues confirmed these findings...
Characterization of a petunia acetyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of the floral volatile isoeugenolRichard Dexter
Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Plant J 49:265-75. 2007..Overall, these data support the conclusion that coniferyl acetate is the substrate of isoeugenol synthase...
Scent engineering: toward the goal of controlling how flowers smellEran Pichersky
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 830 North University Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Trends Biotechnol 25:105-10. 2007....
Generation of phenylpropanoid pathway-derived volatiles in transgenic plants: rose alcohol acetyltransferase produces phenylethyl acetate and benzyl acetate in petunia flowersInna Guterman
The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Plant Mol Biol 60:555-63. 2006..Feeding of transgenic petunia tissues with geraniol or octanol led to the production of their respective acetates, suggesting the dependence of volatile production on substrate availability...
Biosynthesis of plant volatiles: nature's diversity and ingenuityEran Pichersky
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 830 North University Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Science 311:808-11. 2006..Convergent evolution is often responsible for the ability of distally related species to synthesize the same volatile...
Synthesis of the food flavoring methyl benzoate by genetically engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiaeMoran Farhi
Department of Biochemistry and Food Science, The Hebrew University of, Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel
J Biotechnol 122:307-15. 2006..We find major differences in the amounts of methylbenzoate produced by these respective systems. Potential applications are discussed...
The function of terpene natural products in the natural worldJonathan Gershenzon
Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans Knoll Strasse 8, D 07745 Jena, Germany
Nat Chem Biol 3:408-14. 2007..New natural roles undoubtedly remain to be discovered for this large class of compounds, given that such a small percentage of terpenes has been investigated so far...
Intensity and the ratios of compounds in the scent of snapdragon flowers affect scent discrimination by honeybees (Apis mellifera)Geraldine A Wright
Department Entomology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 191:105-14. 2005..Our results show that honeybees are capable of using all of the floral volatiles to discriminate subtle differences in scent...
Eugenol and isoeugenol, characteristic aromatic constituents of spices, are biosynthesized via reduction of a coniferyl alcohol esterTakao Koeduka
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 830 North University Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:10128-33. 2006..The basil and petunia phenylpropene-forming enzymes belong to a structural family of NADPH-dependent reductases that also includes pinoresinol-lariciresinol reductase, isoflavone reductase, and phenylcoumaran benzylic ether reductase...
