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From DISCOvery to products: A next generation pipeline for the sustainable generation of high-value plant products (DISCO)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
"Plant natural products have been utilised by human civilisation for millennia, providing vital medicines and essential dietary components. More recently bioactive compounds from plant sources have been used in cosmetics, as health supplements and are important components of feedstuffs. Despite significant investments new activities and new sustainable biosources are required to alleviate our reli ...
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The development of tools and effective strategies for the optimisation of useful secondary METAbolite PROduction in planta (METAPRO)
Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,
In the METAPRO project we aim to optimise the production of several useful isoprenoid derived secondary metabolites to demonstrate the tools and strategies developed for the generic production of useful secondary metabolites in plants. Astaxanthin (ketocarotenoids) and the apocarotenoid crocin have been selected to demonstrate the application of the technologies adopted and developed. These compou ...
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