Why are there so many carbohydrate-active enzyme-related genes in plants?

Plants contain far more carbohydrate-active enzyme-encoding genes than any other organism sequenced to date. The extremely large number of glycosidase and glycosyltransferase-related genes in plant genomes can be explained by the complex structure of the plant cell wall, by ancient genome duplication and by recent local duplications, but also by the recent emergence of novel and unrelated protein functions based on widely available pre-existing scaffolds.

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Source ISSN: 1360-1385
Author Coutinho, Pedro, M, Stam, Mark, Blanc, Eric, Henrissat, Bernard
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 21, 2026, 12:49 (UTC)
Created May 21, 2026, 12:49 (UTC)
Identifier inserm-00068898
Language en
contributor Architecture et fonction des macromolécules biologiques (AFMB) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Coutinho, Pedro, M
date 2003-05-21T00:00:00
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