Norcoclaurine synthase (NCS) catalyzes the enantioselective Pictet-Spengler condensation of dopamine and 4-hydroxyphenylacetaldehyde as the first step in benzylisoquinoline alkaloid (BIA) biosynthesis. NCS orthologs in available transcriptome databases were screened for variants that might improve the low yield of BIAs in engineered microorganisms. Databases for 21 BIA-producing species from fo...

This study aimed to reveal the interactions of aphids with their primary hosts (pome and stone fruit trees) secondary (herbaceous plants) in around orchards Çanakkale Province northwestern Turkey between April-September from 2020 2021. Thirty-eight aphid species belonging 18 genera two subfamilies, Aphidinae Calaphidinae, Aphididae order Hemiptera were identified on 53 host plants. Also, 92 aph...

Karyomorphology of 30 species of Papaver L. (Papaveraceae) and in situ localization of rDNA sites on chromosomes of P. somniferum was used to establish phylogenetic affinities, ancestry and chromosomal variation during speciation. A simple biometrical parameter, the ‘Dispersion Index’, was employed to facilitate quantitative evolutionary gradation between the closely related karyotypes that fal...

The Bocconieae tribe, consisting of only the genera Macleaya and Bocconia, possesses significant economic and medicinal value and plays an important role in health management for people in developing countries. During the past decades, research on metabolites and relative pharmacology, including the isolation and identification of a variety of molecules, has shed light on the tribe. Among those...