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• Metabolic engineering of natural products in plants; tools of the trade and challenges for the future.

  Plant natural products play essential roles in plant survivability and many of them are used as nutrients, colorants, flavors, fragrances, and medicin…

  Authors: Shuiqin Wu, Joe Chappell

  Source: Current opinion in biotechnology. 2008 Apr

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• Redirection of cytosolic or plastidic isoprenoid precursors elevates terpene production in plants.

  Terpenes constitute a distinct class of natural products that attract insects, defend against phytopathogenic microbes and combat human diseases. Howe…

  Authors: Shuiqin Wu, Michel Schalk, Anthony Clark, R Brandon Miles, Robert Coates, Joe Chappell

  Source: Nature biotechnology. 2006 Nov

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• Surrogate splicing for functional analysis of sesquiterpene synthase genes.

  A method for the recovery of full-length cDNAs from predicted terpene synthase genes containing introns is described. The approach utilizes Agrobacter…

  Authors: Shuiqin Wu, Mark A Schoenbeck, Bryan T Greenhagen, Shunji Takahashi, Sungbeom Lee, Robert M Coates, Joseph Chappell

  Source: Plant physiology. 2005 Jul

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• The key role of phloroglucinol O-methyltransferase in the biosynthesis of Rosa chinensis volatile 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene.

  1,3,5-Trimethoxybenzene is a key component of the Chinese rose odor. This compound is synthesized in three successive methylation steps from phloroglu…

  Authors: Shuiqin Wu, Naoharu Watanabe, Satoru Mita, Hideo Dohra, Yoshihiro Ueda, Masaaki Shibuya, Yutaka Ebizuka

  Source: Plant physiology. 2004 May

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• The diverse sesquiterpene profile of patchouli, Pogostemon cablin, is correlated with a limited number of sesquiterpene synthases.

  Pogostemon cablin (patchouli), like many plants within the Lamiaceae, accumulates large amounts of essential oil. Patchouli oil is unique because it c…

  Authors: Fabienne Deguerry, Laurence Pastore, Shuiqin Wu, Anthony Clark, Joseph Chappell, Michel Schalk

  Source: Archives of biochemistry and biophysics. 2006 Oct 15

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• Two O-methyltransferases isolated from flower petals of Rosa chinensis var. spontanea involved in scent biosynthesis.

  Rosa chinensis var. spontanea predominantly emits 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene together with methyleugenol and isomethyleugenol as minor floral scent compo…

  Authors: Shuiqin Wu, Naoharu Watanabe, Satoru Mita, Yoshihiro Ueda, Masaaki Shibuya, Yutaka Ebizuka

  Source: Journal of bioscience and bioengineering. 2003

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• Biogenesis of volatile methyl esters in snake fruit (Salacca edulis, Reinw) cv. Pondoh.

  The methyl esters of carboxylic acids are characteristic olfactory volatile compounds for the sweet aroma of snake fruit, (Salacca edulis, Reinw) cv. …

  Authors: Supriyadi, Masayuki Suzuki, Shuiqin Wu, Naomi Tomita, Akira Fujita, Naoharu Watanabe

  Source: Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry. 2003 Jun

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