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  • Abdelhady, M.; Beuerle, T.; Ober, D.
    Homospermidine in transgenic tobacco results in considerably reduced spermidine levels but is not converted to pyrrolizidine alkaloid precursors (2009), Plant Mol. Biol., 71, 145-155.
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Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Senecio vernalis
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Synonyms

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HSS
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Senecio vernalis

General Information

General Information Comment Organism
malfunction transgenic tobacco plants are generated expressing Senecio vernalis homospermidine synthase. Analyses of the polyamine content reveals that, in the transgenic plants, about 80% of spermidine is replaced by homospermidine without any conspicuous modifications of the phenotype. Tracer-feeding experiments and gas chromatographic analyses suggest that these high levels of homospermidine are not sufficient to explain the formation of alkaloid precursors Senecio vernalis