Lucie Kriegshauser, Samuel Knosp, Etienne Grienenberger, Kanade Tatsumi, Desirée D Gütle, Iben Sørensen, Laurence Herrgott, Julie Zumsteg, Jocelyn K C Rose, Ralf Reski, Danièle Werck-Reichhart, Hugues Renault
The plant phenylpropanoid pathway generates a major class of specialized metabolites and precursors of essential extracellular polymers that initially appeared upon plant terrestrialization. Despite its evolutionary significance, little is known about the complexity and function of this major metabolic pathway in extant bryophytes, which represent the non-vascular stage of embryophyte evolution. Here, we report that the HYDROXYCINNAMOYL-CoA:SHIKIMATE HYDROXYCINNAMOYL TRANSFERASE (HCT) gene, which plays a critical function in the phenylpropanoid pathway during seed plant development, is functionally conserved in Physcomitrium patens (Physcomitrella), in the moss lineage of bryophytes...
February 6, 2021: Plant Cell