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Jul 2026
Evolutionary hijacking of fatty acid biosynthesis drives insecticidal acylsugar diversity in tomato
Divergence in cis-regulatory elements and subcellular targeting, in the absence of protein function modification, were potent drivers of metabolic evolution, providing a strategy for re-engineering valuable chemical diversity into cultivated crops.
Jian-Jing Wang, Jian-Feng Jin, Xiangyi Feng et al.
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