The evolution of new genes to make novel secondary compounds in plants is an ongoing process and might account for most of the differences in gene function among plant genomes. Although there are many substrates and products in plant secondary metabolism, there are only a few types of reactions. Repeated evolution is a special form of convergent evolution in which new enzymes with the same function evolve independently in separate plant lineages from a shared pool of related enzymes with similar but not identical functions. This appears to be common in secondary metabolism and might confound the assignment of gene function based on sequence information alone.
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
25
2%
Other
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Unknown
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Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 September 2022.
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#10,911,195
of 31,936,881 outputs
Outputs from Trends in Plant Science
#1,725
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#21,433
of 53,511 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trends in Plant Science
#5
of 11 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 2,770 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.7. This one is in the 36th percentile – i.e., 36% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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