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Excited to see our paper online! We combined scMS and scRNA-seq from the same plant cells 🌱 — a step toward true single-cell multi-omics in plants.
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Ipecac alkaloid biosynthesis in two evolutionarily distant plants - Nature Chemical Biology Ipecac alkaloids are plant-derived compounds historically used to induce vomiting. Here the authors elucidate how two evolutionary distant plant species have evolved to produce the same ipecac alkaloi...

Finally online and open access!
This revised version has a slightly different title and contains a number of additional supplementary figures, mainly in vitro enzyme assays. Kept me quite busy in the lab at the end of last year!
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Engineering of insect juvenile hormone III biosynthesis in the plant Nicotiana benthamiana Juvenile hormones (JHs) are farnesoic acid-derived sesquiterpenoids that play a crucial role in regulating various developmental processes in insects.…

Happy to share my first research paper :)

The fate of a Solanum steroidal alkaloid toxin in the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni) Plants produce complex chemical defenses against herbivores, resulting in the emergence of detoxification strategies in phytophagous insects. While en…

Enzymatic detoxification of a potato steroidal alkaloid toxin by a generalist insect - cabbage looper.
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