Claim · model-written summary
Silencing GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM 4 prevented SGA accumulation in potato tubers.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume0 - Organ / stage
- tuberse0
- Treatment
- Silencing GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM 4e0
- Gene
- GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM 4e0
- Outcome
- accumulation of SGAse0
- Direction
- preventede0
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Verbatim
e0“Silencing GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM 4 prevented accumulation of SGAs in potato tubers and tomato fruit.”
Title
Biosynthesis of Antinutritional Alkaloids in Solanaceous Crops Is Mediated by Clustered Genes
M. Itkin; U. Heinig; O. Tzfadia; et al. Science 2013. doi:10.1126/science.1240230
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Comparative analysis identified 10 genes involved in steroidal glycoalkaloid biosynthesis in tomato and potato.
- Observation Six of the identified genes form a cluster on chromosome 7.
- Observation Two additional genes are adjacent in a duplicated region on chromosome 12.
- Mechanism Functional analysis supports a revised pathway from cholesterol to the tetrasaccharide moiety of tomato SGA aglycone.
- Intervention effect Silencing GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM 4 prevented SGA accumulation in tomato fruit.