Plant gene clusters for natural products
Date: 25.4.2008
John Innes Centre scientists have found that plants may cluster the **genes** needed to make defence chemicals. Their findings may provide a way to discover new natural plant products of use as **drugs**, herbicides or crop protectants. Using a gene cluster that makes an antifungal compound in oats as a template, they uncovered a previously unknown **gene cluster** making a related compound in a very different species, and now want to extend the search to other plants.
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