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SUBMITTER: Yin G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5303748 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yin Guoying G Wang Wenjing W Niu Haixia H Ding Yongqiang Y Zhang Dingyu D Zhang Jie J Liu Guanshan G Wang Sangen S Zhang Hongbo H
Frontiers in plant science 20170213
Nicotine is a secondary metabolite that is important to the defense system and commercial quality of tobacco (<i>Nicotiana tabacum</i> L.). Jasmonate and its derivatives (JAs) are phytohormone regulators of nicotine formation; however, the underlying molecular mechanism of this process remains largely unclear. Owing to the amphitetraploid origin of <i>N. tabacum</i>, research on screening and identification of nicotine-synthetic mutants is relatively scarce. Here, we describe a method based on J ...[more]