ExPlant Technologies develops plant cell and organ cultures that serve as alternative
production system for e.g. bio-active metabolites, enzymes or structural proteins and antibodies
As supporting technologies ExPlant develops:
- methods for metabolite analyses
- mRNA transcript profiling methods and
- biochemical enzyme assays
Based on combined data, ExPlant develops:
- treatments to maximise product yields in cells and plants
- biotransformation of compounds for improved characteristics
- pathway engineering to produce new leads
So far, ExPlant has lines of:
- Catharanthus roseus cultivars for producing intermediates in indole alkaloid biosynthesis
- Jacobaea sp. for biosynthesis of pyrrolizidine alkaloids upon feeding precursors
- Plant lines for biopesticide development
Catharanthus roseus serves as our initial system to develop our technologies and to realise valuable bio-active metabolites
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