Zhichao Xu, Shanshan Chen, Yalin Wang, Ya Tian, Xiaotong Wang, Tianyi Xin, Zishan Li, Xin Hua, Shengnan Tan, Wei Sun, Xiangdong Pu, Hui Yao, Ranran Gao, Jingyuan Song
Crocus sativus (saffron) is a globally autumn-flowering plant, and its stigmas are the most expensive spice and valuable herb medicine. Crocus specialized metabolites, crocins, are biosynthesized in distant species, Gardenia (eudicot) and Crocus (monocot), and the evolution of crocin biosynthesis remains poorly understood. With the chromosome-level Crocus genome assembly, we revealed that two rounds of lineage-specific whole genome triplication occurred, contributing important roles in the production of carotenoids and apocarotenoids...
April 2024: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica. B