Realizing the value of plant natural products: from metabolic engineering to biorefining
- đ¤ Speaker: Meeting Chair: Professor Robert Edwards , Chief Scientist, The Food and Environment Research Agency
- đ Date & Time: Friday 16 November 2012, 09:00 - 17:00
- đ Venue: The Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst,Gunnels Wood Road,Stevenage, SG1 2FX
Abstract
Plants produce a wide range of natural products with valuable activities as pharmaceuticals, nurtaceuticals, crop protection agents, food ingredients and personal care products. With a growing public interest in ‘naturals’ and policy drivers to increase sustainability of chemical production, there is now a major opportunity for biotechnologists to increase the supply and diversity of phytochemicals available for industrial applications. In this meeting these opportunities will be reviewed, along with the approaches being employed nationally to meet this demand using a combination of plant breeding, metabolic engineering and biorefining.
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Meeting Chair: Professor Robert Edwards , Chief Scientist, The Food and Environment Research Agency
Friday 16 November 2012, 09:00-17:00