PROTEIN EXHIBITING ACTIVITY OF PYRETHRIN BIOSYNTHETIC ENZYME, GENE ENDCODING THE PROTEIN, AND VECTOR BEARING THE GENE

摘要

The present invention relates to an enzyme determining amino acid sequences of an enzyme involved in pyrethrin biosynthesis and a base sequence of the gene thereof; constructing vectors bearing the gene and transformants; and extractable from plant bodies producing pyrethrin by applying such creative techniques to plant bodies with faster growth aiming to provide a method to efficiently produce pyrethrin; and the enzyme is a gene encoding a protein of the following (i) or (ii):
(i) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence shown in Sequence No. 1; or
(ii) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence including one ormore of a substitution, deletion, insertion, and/or addition of amino acid in the amino acid sequence shown in Sequence No. 1, in which the protein exhibits activity of pyrethrin biosynthetic enzyme.