Triterpene Messages from the EU-FP7 Project TriForC

Alain Goossens; Anne Osbourn; Franck Michoux; Søren Bak

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2018.02.002

Triterpene Messages from the EU-FP7 Project TriForC

Trends Plant Sci. 2018 Apr;23(4):273-276. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.02.002. Epub 2018 Feb 23.

Authors

Alain Goossens¹, Anne Osbourn², Franck Michoux³, Søren Bak⁴

Affiliations

¹ Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium; VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: alain.goossens@psb.vib-ugent.be.
² Department of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
³ Evonik Advanced Botanicals, 220 rue Henri Potez, 37210 Parçay Meslay, France.
⁴ Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 29483042
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.02.002

Abstract

TriForC is an innovative EU-funded collaborative project that has established an integrative pipeline for the exploitation of plant triterpenes for commercialization in agriculture and pharmacology. We discuss the main outcomes of TriForC and reflect on its potential long-term impact and on the importance of EU projects for science, industry, and society.

Keywords: agrochemicals; biosynthesis; engineering; synthetic biology; therapeutics; triterpenes.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Agriculture
Metabolome*
Pharmacology
Plants / metabolism*
Synthetic Biology
Triterpenes / metabolism*

Substances

Triterpenes

Grants and funding

BBS/E/J/000PR9790/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom