Methyl salicylate

Cloning and characterization of a benzoic acid/salicylic acid carboxyl methyltransferase gene involved in floral scent production from lily (Lilium ‘Yelloween’)

H. Wang, Sun, M., Li, L. L., Xie, X. H., and Zhang, Q. X., Cloning and characterization of a benzoic acid/salicylic acid carboxyl methyltransferase gene involved in floral scent production from lily (Lilium ‘Yelloween’), vol. 14, pp. 14510-14521, 2015.

In lily flowers, the volatile ester methyl benzoate is one of the major and abundant floral scent compounds; however, knowledge regarding the biosynthesis of methyl benzoate remains unknown for Lilium. In this study, we isolated a benzoic acid/salicylic acid carboxyl methyltransferase (BSMT) gene, LiBSMT, from petals of Lilium ‘Yelloween’. The gene has an open reading frame of 1083 base pairs (bp) and encodes a protein of 41.05 kDa.

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