The family of terpene synthases in plants: a mid-size family of genes for specialized metabolism that is highly diversified throughout the kingdom.

By Feng Chen, D. Tholl, Jörg Bohlmann, E. Pichersky. The Plant Journal, 2011

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Subfields: Biochemistry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology

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Plant defense against herbivores: chemical aspects. (2012, background): “Metabolic plasticity reflects the evolutionary plasticity with closely related enzymes from different protein families, differing in their product profiles, localization, or the substrates they use (24).”
Biosynthesis of essential oils in aromatic plants: A review (2016, background): “On the basis of amino acid sequence alignments, the plant terpene synthases are divided into seven subfamilies, from TPSa to TPSg,((112)) with members of each subfamily having approximately 40% sequence identity.”
The Plant Ontology as a Tool for Comparative Plant Anatomy and Genomic Analyses (2012, background): “Many such homologs may have similar functions, such as enzymatic activities, but have clearly diverged in different lineages (Chen et al., 2011).”
Biosynthesis and biological functions of terpenoids in plants. (2015, background): “The existence of medium-size to large TPS families in Arabidopsis and many other plant species strongly supports the notion that TPS genes evolve by gene duplication and neofunctionalization [185, 216, 217].”
Baptism by fire: the pivotal role of ancient conflagrations in evolution of the Earth's flora (2018, background): “TPS genes encode enzymes (TPS gene family) that use similar substrates andyield similar products but have diverged in different species [122].”
The Amborella Genome and the Evolution of Flowering Plants (2013, background): “However,thesesquiterpenesynthasesubfamilya (TPS-a),whichispresentindicots,monocots,and Magnoliaceaebutabsentingymnospermsandnon-seedplants( 59 ), is also absent in Amborella (fig.”