Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 15, 1312-1320, Copyright © 1998 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
GL Galloway, RL Malmberg and RA Price
Arginine decarboxylase (ADC) is an important enzyme in the production of
putrescine and polyamines in plants. It is encoded by a single or low-copy
nuclear gene that lacks introns in sequences studied to date. The rate of
Adc amino acid sequence evolution is similar to that of ndhF for the
angiosperm family studied. Highly conserved regions provide several target
sites for PCR priming and sequencing and aid in nucleotide and amino acid
sequence alignment across a range of taxonomic levels, while a variable
region provides an increased number of potentially informative characters
relative to ndhF for the taxa surveyed. The utility of the Adc gene in
plant molecular systematic studies is demonstrated by analysis of its
partial nucleotide sequences obtained from 13 representatives of
Brassicaceae and 3 outgroup taxa, 2 from the mustard oil clade (order
Capparales) and 1 from the related order Malvales. Two copies of the Adc
gene, Adc1 and Adc2, are found in all members of the Brassicaceae studied
to data except the basal genus Aethionema. The resulting Adc gene tree
provides robust phylogenetic data regarding relationships within the
complex mustard family, as well as independent support for proposed tribal
realignments based on other molecular data sets such as those from
chloroplast DNA.
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Phylogenetic utility of the nuclear gene arginine decarboxylase: an example from Brassicaceae
Department of Botany, University of Georgia at Athens 30602, USA. galloway@dogwood.botany.uga.edu
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