Anqi Zhou, a chemical engineering Ph.D. student at UC San Diego and co-first author on the study, engineers the microbial cell factories and uses them to study strigolactone biosynthesis. Photo by ...

Paper: “Evolution of inter-organismal strigolactone biosynthesis in seed plants.” Co-authors include Anqi Zhou*, Kaibiao Wang, and Yanran Li, UC San Diego; Annalise Kane*, Michell Santiago ...

Paper: "Evolution of inter-organismal strigolactone biosynthesis in seed plants." Co-authors include Anqi Zhou*, Kaibiao Wang, and Yanran Li, UC San Diego; Annalise Kane*, Michell Santiago, and David ...

Biosynthesis is the generation of natural products through enzymatic reactions, as in cellular metabolism. Successive enzymatic reactions by a number of enzymes are generally required to achieve a ...

Traditional methods to study strigolactone, in contrast, can require extracting at least 340 liters of xylem sap—the equivalent of seven or eight poplar trees. Realistically, that amount needs ...

Low-phosphorus stress (LPS) and pathogen attack are two important stresses frequently experienced by plants in their natural habitats, but how plant respond to them coordinately remains ...

Abiotic stresses are considered as a significant factor restricting horticultural crop productivity and quality. Drought stress is a major environmental constraint among the emerging concerns. Plants ...

MOE Key Laboratory of Bio-Intelligent Manufacturing, State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Frontiers Science Centre for Smart Materials Oriented Chemical Engineering, School of Bioengineering, ...