ArticleJournal of experimental botany2019
Shared expression of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) genes pre-dates the origin of CAM in the genus Yucca.
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- Integrative analysis of CAM photosynthesis reveals its impact on primary metabolism in Yucca.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
- Divergent Transcriptional Architectures Beyond Core CAM Genes in Facultative and Constitutive CAM Species in Tillandsia L.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
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- Chlorophyll fluorescence responses to COJournal of plant research · 2025Article
- Transcriptomic Analysis of the CAM SpeciesPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- CAM evolution is associated with gene family expansion in an explosive bromeliad radiation.The Plant cell · 2024Article
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- Bringing CAM photosynthesis to the table: Paving the way for resilient and productive agricultural systems in a changing climate.Plant communications · 2024Review
- Elevated nocturnal respiratory rates in the mitochondria of CAM plants: current knowledge and unanswered questions.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- The Agavoideae: an emergent model clade for CAM evolutionary biology.Annals of botany · 2023Review
- Reconciling continuous and discrete models of C4 and CAM evolution.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- Prospects and perspectives: inferring physiological and regulatory targets for CAM from molecular and modelling approaches.Annals of botany · 2023Review
- Diel dynamics of multi-omics in elkhorn fern provide new insights into weak CAM photosynthesis.Plant communications · 2023Article
- Differential timing of gene expression and recruitment in independent origins of CAM in the Agavoideae (Asparagaceae).The New phytologist · 2022Article
- Evolution of Crassulacean acid metabolism in response to the environment: past, present, and future.Plant physiology · 2022Review
- Underwater CAM photosynthesis elucidated by Isoetes genome.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments.Plant, cell & environment · 2021Review
- Leaf anatomy is not correlated to CAM function in a C3+CAM hybrid species, Yucca gloriosa.Annals of botany · 2021Article
- Hybridization History and Repetitive Element Content in the Genome of a Homoploid Hybrid,Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
- New perspectives on crassulacean acid metabolism biology.Journal of experimental botany · 2019Review
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Abstract
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a carbon-concentrating mechanism that has evolved numerous times across flowering plants and is thought to be an adaptation to water-limited environments. CAM has been investigated from physiological and biochemical perspectives, but little is known about how plants evolve from C3 to CAM at the genetic or metabolic level. Here we take a comparative approach in analyzing time-course data of C3, CAM, and C3+CAM intermediate Yucca (Asparagaceae) species. RNA samples were collected over a 24 h period from both well-watered and drought-stressed plants, and were clustered based on time-dependent expression patterns. Metabolomic data reveal differences in carbohydrate metabolism and antioxidant response between the CAM and C3 species, suggesting that changes to metabolic pathways are important for CAM evolution and function. However, all three species share expression profiles of canonical CAM pathway genes, regardless of photosynthetic pathway. Despite differences in transcript and metabolite profiles between the C3 and CAM species, shared time-structured expression of CAM genes in both CAM and C3Yucca species suggests that ancestral expression patterns required for CAM may have pre-dated its origin in Yucca.
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