Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now MIT chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by genetically ...

Scientists have turned an ornamental plant into a tool for combating a bacterial disease that threatens the world's citrus crop. A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and ...

MIT researchers have discovered a way to manipulate the chemistry taking place in the tiny periwinkle plant to produce novel compounds that could have pharmacological benefits. "Plants are really ...

CrWRKY4 transcriptional circuit in the Madagascar periwinkle that acts as both accelerator and brake on the biosynthesis of ...

In the field of medicine, many life-saving drugs have been developed from plants. In this category, few have been as successfully employed as the rosy periwinkle, Cathanthus roseus. Native to the ...

Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by genetically engineering ...

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Green-synthesized iron oxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles made with Catharanthus roseus extract strongly inhibit Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli while boosting antioxidant enzymes, proline, ...

We transformed an alkaloid biosynthetic gene with reengineered substrate specificity into Catharanthus roseus. The resulting transgenic plant cell culture produced a variety of unnatural alkaloid ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ecologist Christy Brigham stands amid willows hemming Medea Creek in the ...