Plants biosynthesize an amazing array
of structurally diverse small molecules. The purpose
of this multidisciplinary collaborative research was to determine
how and why plants synthesize diverse triterpenoids.
This project integrated reverse genetics in Arabidopsis,
heterologous expression of cDNAs in yeast, spectroscopic
and chromatographic structural determination, and gene expression
analysis to elucidate the function of Arabidopsis triterpenoid
biosynthetic genes and thereby triterpenoid biosynthetic
pathways, control mechanisms, and biological function.
Our triterpene publications
