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Molecular Phylogenies and Structural Diversification of Gymnosperm and Angiosperm Storage Globulins

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Seed Proteins

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In recent years, a considerable amount of data has improved our knowledge of 11S (legumin) and 7S (vicilin) seed storage globulins. Most of this information comes from studies in crop plants representing only a small taxonomic range within the huge division of angiosperms; the main interest has focused on a handful of plant families (Chapters 9–20). Nevertheless, the wide distribution of legumins and vicilins in vascular plants has been confirmed now by sequence data from lower angiosperm clades, Gnetales, conifers, Ginkgo, cycads, and ferns. However, given a common ancestry of legumins and vicilins rooted somewhere in the plant kingdom, we may still be dealing with the upper branches of the legumin and vicilin evolutionary trees.

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Häger, KP., Fischer, H. (1999). Molecular Phylogenies and Structural Diversification of Gymnosperm and Angiosperm Storage Globulins. In: Shewry, P.R., Casey, R. (eds) Seed Proteins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4431-5_21

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