Sentence examples for caffeine production from inspiring English sources

That is the prospect of new research by scientists in Japan and Scotland who have cloned the gene responsible for an enzyme that plays an important role in caffeine production.

Compared with other plant genomes such as grape's, the coffee genome has expanded the family of genes that include those that code for enzymes involved in caffeine production, researchers report online today in Science.

Although it shows no sign of the whole-genome triplication identified in Solanaceae species such as tomato, the genome includes several species-specific gene family expansions, among them N-methyltransferases (NMTs) involved in caffeine production, defense-related genes, and alkaloid and flavonoid enzymes involved in secondary compound synthesis.

But how caffeine production got started has been as hard to see as a spoon in a demitasse of espresso.

"In the case of caffeine genes, we have a series of duplications that occurred all next to each other, which gave rise to enzymes that catalyze different steps" in caffeine production.

Evolution favored caffeine production because the compound repels insects that prey on leaves and halts the germination of seeds from competing plants, giving coffee species a niche in which to thrive.

There are two basic problems with consuming caffeine when cortisol production is high.

This study was designed to investigate the direct effects and inheritable epigenetic mechanisms of caffeine on cortisol production and StAR expression in human adrenocortical cells.

Caffeine suppresses the production of serotonin in the brain.

The first objective of this study was to evaluate whether caffeine adversely affects voice production.

Studies also suggest that caffeine stimulates gastric acid production and relaxes the lower esophageal sphincter [76], increasing the risk of gastric and duodenal ulcers [77, 78] as well as gastroesophageal reflux disease [79].