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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Papaver somniferum
SUBMITTER: Anthony Millgate
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-1543 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nature 20040901 7007
The opium poppy is a source of the pharmaceuticals codeine, morphine and their derived analgesics. Here we describe the initial characterization of the poppy mutant known as top1 (for 'thebaine oripavine poppy 1'), which accumulates the morphine and codeine precursors thebaine and oripavine and does not complete their biosynthesis into morphine and codeine. The original discovery of top1 stimulated a re-engineering of the opioid industry in the island state of Tasmania, which grows over 40% of t ...[more]