Medicinal Plant Secondary Metabolism: Diversity, Function and its Evolution
It is widely recognized that higher plant cells are rich sources of a variety of natural products for medicinal use. Numerous attempts have been made to secure and/or stimulate the productivities of these important secondary metabolites of plant cells; such as enhancement of the activities of biosynthetic enzymes of desired compounds with molecular biological and horticultural techniques, cultivation of plants in vitro and manipulation of the primary or secondary metabolism under artificially controlled conditions, and development of protection methods for medicinal plants against various environmental stresses.
(A, wild-type; B-E, pathogenic gene-deletion mutants)
Research Topics
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Elucidation of the biosynthetic machinery of the unique secondary metabolites in medicinal plants
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Hybrid Breeding, improving the production of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants
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Characterization of virulence mechanism in pathogenic fungi and establishment of the molecular basis for plant defense mechanism
Lab Members
Jung-bum Lee
Lecturer
- Degree
- Ph.D.
- Research Areas
- Natural Products Chemistry, Polysaccharides, Plant Secondary Metabolism
Yoshimi Yamamura
Assistant Professor
- Degree
- Ph.D.
- Research Areas
- Plant Physiology, Plant Pathology, Plant Molecular Biology