<i>MaUGT79</i> confers drought tolerance by regulating scopolin biosynthesis in plants
Journal: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Year: 2023

Abstract The coumarin scopoletin and its glycosylated form scopolin constitute a vast class of natural products that are considered to be high-value compounds, distributed widely in the plant kingdom, they help plants adapt to environmental stresses. However, the underlying molecular mechanism of how scopolin is involved in the regulation of plant drought tolerance remains largely unexplored. Here, UDP-glycosyltransferase 79 (MaUGT79) was genetically mapped as the target gene by bulk segregant a