Open AccessVitamin E-Defective Mutants of Arabidopsis Tell Tales of Convergent Evolution
Author(s) -
Nancy A. Eckardt
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.151010
Subject(s) - biology , arabidopsis , mutant , convergent evolution , evolutionary biology , mutation , genetics , botany , gene , phylogenetics
Tocopherols (collectively known as vitamin E) are lipophilic antioxidants that are essential in the human diet. Not surprisingly, most of what is known about the biological functions of tocopherols comes from studies of mammalian systems, yet they are synthesized only by photosynthetic eukaryotes
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