“…ACO has been cloned and characterized in many plant species such as peach, potato, strawberry, white clover, plum, Arabidopsis, rice, apple, pine, pear (Ruperti et al, 2001;Nie et al, 2002;Trainotti et al, 2005;Chen and McManus, 2006;Fernandez-Otero et al, 2006;Babula et al, 2006;Quyang et al, 2007;Binnie and McManus, 2009;Yuan et al, 2010;Qi et al, 2015). Here, we identified the GbACO gene originated from the G. bilobaleaves that promoted the growth of ginkgo, and analyzed the sequence structure and function.We constructed a phylogenetic tree for the comparison of GbACO with other members of the plant dioxygenase family through the neighbor-joining method.…”