Biotechnology of Plant Secondary Metabolism

Elicitation Approaches for Withanolide Production in Hairy Root Culture of Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal.- Stimulant Paste Preparation and Bark Streak Tapping Technique for Pine Oleoresin Extraction.- A Modified Protocol for High Quality RNA Extraction from Oleoresin-Producing Adult Pines.- Collection of Apoplastic Fluids from Arabidopsis thaliana Leaves.- From Plant Extract to a cDNA-Encoding a Glucosyltransferase Candidate: Proteomics and Transcriptomics as Tools to Help Elucidate Saponin Biosynthesis in Centella asiatica.- Production of Recombinant Caffeine Synthase from Guarana (Paullinia cupana var. sorbillis) in Escherichia coli.- Heterologous Expression and Characterization of Mimosinase from Leucaena leucocephala.- Production of Aromatic Plant Terpenoids in Recombinant Baker´s Yeast.- Purification of a Recombinant Polyhistidine-Tagged Glycosyltransferase Using Immobilized Metal-Affinity Chromatography (IMAC).- A Western Blot Protocol for Detection of Proteins Heterologously Expressed in Xenopus laevis Oocytes.- Laser Capture Microdissection: Avoiding Bias in Analysis by Selecting Just What Matters.- Analytical and Fluorimetric Methods for the Characterization of the Transmembrane Transport of Specialized Metabolites in Plants.- Protoplast Transformation as a Plant-Transferable Transient Expression System.- Design, Construction, and Validation of Artificial MicroRNA Vectors Using Agrobacterium-Mediated Transient Expression System.- Knockdown of Polyphenol Oxidase Gene Expression in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) with Artificial MicroRNAs.