1 State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, 650201 China ; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China.
2 State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, 650201 China.
3 National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai, 200032 China.
This review provides an overview of diterpene synthases which were initially identified via genetic and/or biochemical means, traversing all organisms researched to date.