Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Stemodene is a labdane-related diterpene whose corresponding terpene synthase has been discovered in rice and subsequently cloned and functionally characterized. The gene responsible for stemodene production has not been found in the completed rice genome thus suggesting that perhaps other genes are as yet undiscovered in the completed genome. Stemarene synthase demonstrates high sequence homology with stemodene synthase thus accounting for the latter’s discovery by Dana Morrone in 2005.
