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Calendar Name: seminars
Scheduled for: Monday, December 3 2012, 11:00 - 12:30
Event text:    Prof Anne Osbourn 
	       
	       John Innes Centre 
	       
	       Norwich 
	       UNITED KINGDOM
Details:       “Making new molecules”
	       
	       ABSTRACT
	       Plants produce a huge array of natural products, many of
	       which are specialised metabolites associated with
	       particular species. These secondary metabolites often
	       have important ecological roles, facilitating
	       pollination and seed dispersal and/or providing
	       protection against attack by pests and pathogens.
	       Although the ability of plants to perform in vivo
	       combinatorial chemistry by mixing, matching and evolving
	       the genes required for different secondary metabolite
	       biosynthetic pathways is likely to have been critical
	       for survival and diversification of the Plant Kingdom we
	       know very little about the mechanisms underpinning this
	       process. This talk will focus on plant natural product
	       function and synthesis, the origins of metabolic
	       diversity and potential for metabolic engineering,
	       drawing on our research on terpene synthesis in crop and
	       model plants.

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