By John T. (EDT)/ Saunders, James A. (EDT)/ Matthews, Benjamin F. (EDT)/ Joint Meeting of the Ph Romeo
The papers assembled during this quantity have been initially awarded on the joint assembly of the Phytochemical Society of North the USA and the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society, in August 2000. The symposium from which those chapters have been ready was once entitled "Regulation of Phytochemicals via Molecular innovations" and was once organised by way of James Saunders and Ben Matthews. This joint assembly used to be well timed as a result of contemporary landmark advances in molecular biology and genomics in addition to the renewed curiosity in phytochemistry as a wealthy resource of nutraceuticals, medicinal drugs, and choices to man made agriculture insecticides. growth in genome sequencing in vegetation corresponding to Arabidopsis and rice has been striking, as have expressed series tag (EST) tasks in different vegetation, together with maize and soybean. lately, inner most and public quarter contributors of the Human Genome venture introduced tough draft of the human genome has been developed. those advances at once effect phytochemical investigations through delivering either perception and instruments for exploring and manipulating genomes. The chapters hide quite a lot of functions from molecular biology to phytochemistry, and from uncomplicated reports on promoters and gene expression to pathway law and engineering with reworked vegetation. a couple of noteworthy elements emerge from this quantity: purposes of molecular biology to phytochemical sensible difficulties are succeeding; newly rising molecular instruments promise to open new doorways to discovery; and memorable growth has already happened in phytochemical pathway engineering.