Concerns over climate change have necessitated a rethinking of our transportation
infrastructure. One possible alternative to carbon-polluting fossil fuels is biofuels produced …

Terpenoids, the most abundant compounds in natural products, are a set of important
secondary metabolites in plants with diverse structures. Terpenoids play key roles in plant …

Abstract Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) has been used as a food, spice, supplement
and flavoring agent and in traditional medicines due to its beneficial characteristics such as …

The year 2017 marks the twentieth anniversary of terpenoid cyclase structural biology: a trio
of terpenoid cyclase structures reported together in 1997 were the first to set the foundation …

The review by Christianson, published in 2017 on the twentieth anniversary of the
emergence of the field, summarizes the foundational discoveries and key advances in …

There is an immediate need to drastically reduce the emissions associated with global fossil
fuel consumption in order to limit climate change. However, carbon-based materials …

resumo Na sociedade, em geral no Ocidente, a botânica é considerada um tema enfadonho
e ultrapassado da biologia. Ao contrário dos animais, as plantas despertam pouco ou …

In this review, we address recent advances made in pathway engineering, directed
evolution, and systems/synthetic biology approaches employed in the production and …

Rising global energy demands and climate crisis has created an unprecedented need for
the bio-based circular economy to ensure sustainable development with the minimized …

Isoprene, a key building block of synthetic rubber, is currently produced entirely from
petrochemical sources. Previous metabolic engineering efforts, centered on heterologous …