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2023
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The causal mutation leading to sweetness in modern white lupin cultivars.
Lupins are high-protein crops that are rapidly gaining interest as hardy alternatives to soybean; however, they accumulate antinutritional alkaloids of the quinolizidine type (QAs). Lupin domestication was enabled by the discovery of genetic loci conferring low QA levels (sweetness), but the precise identity of the underlying genes remains uncertain. We... -
2019
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Detection of seasonal variation in Aloe polysaccharides using carbohydrate detecting microarrays
Aloe vera gel is a globally popular natural product used for the treatment of skin conditions. Its useful properties are attributed to the presence of bioactive polysaccharides. Nearly 25% of the 600 species in the genus Aloe are used locally in traditional medicine, indicating that the bioactive components in Aloe...Ahl, Louise ; Al-Husseini, Narjes ; Al-Helle, Sara ; Staerk, Dan ; Grace, Olwen …
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2019
Journal article
Assessing Specialized Metabolite Diversity in the Cosmopolitan Plant Genus Euphorbia L.
Coevolutionary theory suggests that an arms race between plants and herbivores yields increased plant specialized metabolite diversity and the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution predicts that coevolutionary interactions vary across geographic scales. Consequently, plant specialized metabolite diversity is expected to be highest in coevolutionary hotspots, geographic regions, which exhibit strong...Ernst, Madeleine ; Nothias, Louis-Félix ; van der Hooft, Justin ; Silva, Ricardo ; Saslis-Lagoudakis, Haris …