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Recent Topics Posters Crum, Alexandra [1], Yang, Ya [2]. Phylogenetic Distribution of Traditional Medicinal Use in Caryophyllales. The order Caryophyllales is notable for including several important medicinal plants, as well as its unique production of tyrosine (Tyr)-derived betalain pigments originating in the core clade. Betalains are mutually exclusive with the widespread phenylalanine (Phe)-derived anthocyanin pigments. The switch from anthocyanin to betalain is symptomatic of a wider diversification of Tyr-enriched specialized metabolism in the group, potentially at the expense of Phe-derived metabolites, including anthocyanin. Specialized metabolites are the underlying cause of a plant’s potential medicinal effect, so we would expect closely related plants with similar metabolites to have similar uses in traditional medicine. Caryophyllales, with its importance in traditional medicine and expected difference in specialized metabolites between lineages, is an an ideal clade to explore the relationship between specialized metabolism, evolution, and traditional medicine. Here we present preliminary results of a literature review of medicinal use in Caryophyllales. Uses were mapped onto a phylogeny and tested for phylogenetic clustering at each node.
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1 - University Of Minnesota, Plant And Microbial Biology, 1479 Gortner Avenue , 140 Gortner Lab Of Biochemistry, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, United States
2 - University Of Minnesota, Plant And Microbial Biology, 1445 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States
Keywords:
Caryophyllales
Ethnobotany
specialized metabolism
phylogenetics.
Presentation Type: Recent Topics Poster
Session: P1, Recent Topics Posters
Location: Virtual/Virtual
Date: Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
Time: 5:00 PM(EDT)
Number: P1RT020
Abstract ID:1410
Candidate for Awards:None |
