Engineered aroma and therapy
Oct 25th, 2006 by Axel
Chappell and colleagues present an approach for boosting plant production of natural products that are widely used in perfumery, medicine and the food industry. By redirecting isoprenoid precursors towards terpene synthesis in tobacco, they increase production of the fragrance patchoulol, the flavor component limonene and the precursor of the antimalarial drug artemisinin.
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nbt1251.html