Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39439482›Full record

ReviewJournal of the Royal Society of New Zealand2023

Flavonoids - flowers, fruit, forage and the future.

Nick W Albert, Declan J Lafferty, Sarah M A Moss, Kevin M Davies

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Review in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Effects ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2025
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  8. The evolution of flavonoid biosynthesis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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  10. A high-density linkage map construction in guava (Frontiers in plant science · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nick W AlbertThe New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Palmerston North, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8579-529X
Declan J LaffertyThe New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Sarah M A MossThe New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Kevin M DaviesThe New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flavonoids are plant-specific secondary metabolites that arose early during land-plant colonisation, most likely evolving for protection from UV-B and other abiotic stresses. As plants increased in complexity, so too did the diversity of flavonoid compounds produced and their physiological roles. The most conspicuous are the pigments, including yellow aurones and chalcones, and the red/purple/blue anthocyanins, which provide colours to flowers, fruits and foliage. Anthocyanins have been particularly well studied, prompted by the ease of identifying mutants of genes involved in biosynthesis or regulation, providing an important model system to study fundamental aspects of genetics, gene regulation and biochemistry. This has included identifying the first plant transcription factor, and later resolving how multiple classes of transcription factor coordinate in regulating the production of various flavonoid classes - each with different activities and produced at differing developmental stages. In addition, dietary flavonoids from fruits/vegetables and forage confer human- and animal-health benefits, respectively. This has prompted strong interest in generating new plant varieties with increased flavonoid content through both traditional breeding and plant biotechnology. Gene-editing technologies provide new opportunities to study how flavonoids are regulated and produced and to improve the flavonoid content of flowers, fruits, vegetables and forages.

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anthocyaninFlavonoidMYBproanthocyanidintranscription factor

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PMID39439482
PMCPMC11459809

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