“…Their genes have been identified in several species, as, for example, Arabidopsis (Møller and McPherson, 1998; Planas-Portell et al., 2013), chickpea (Rea et al., 1998), pea (Tipping and McPherson, 1995), tobacco (Paschalidis and Roubelakis-Angelakis, 2005b; Naconsie et al., 2014), apple (Zarei et al., 2015), grapevine (Paschalidis et al., 2009b), and sweet orange (Wang et al., 2017). Arabidopsis has at least ten recognized CuAO genes, however, only five of them ( AtAO1 , AtCuAO1 , AtCuAO2 , AtCuAO3 , and AtCuAO8 ) have been characterized at protein level (Møller and McPherson, 1998; Planas-Portell et al., 2013; Ghuge et al., 2015; Groβ et al., 2017). The apple genome contains five putative CuAO genes with two of them ( MdAO1 and MdAO2 ) being identified at protein level (Zarei et al., 2015) and, recently, eight putative CuAO genes were reported in sweet orange (Wang et al., 2017).…”