Anchal Garg

TL;DR: Comparative analysis of root and leaf transcriptomes disclosed novel genes of the ent-LRD biosynthetic pathway, including three class II diTPSs that showed discrete spatio-temporal expression patterns; thus, suggesting their participation into distinct diterpene metabolic pathways of kalmegh.

TL;DR: The results suggest similar as well as distinct roles of CYP716A252 and CYP 716A253 for the spatio-temporal biosynthesis of PCTs, which might be useful for the alternative and sustainable production of P CTs in microbial host, besides increasing plant metabolite content through genetic modification.

TL;DR: A comparative transcriptional analysis using leaf and root tissues and transcripts revealed various specialized metabolic pathways, including transcripts of the ent-LRD biosynthetic pathway, which advances the understanding of the tissue-specific accumulation of specialized ent-LRDs of medicinal importance.

TL;DR: A combined transcriptomics, metabolomics and biochemical approach was employed to functionally define a suite of oxidosqualene cyclases (OSCs) that catalyzed key reactions towards triterpene scaffold diversification in arjuna tree bark.

TL;DR: The biochemical analysis of recombinant UGTs preferentially expressed in neoandrographolide-accumulating tissues identified a previously uncharacterized UGT86 member (ApUGT12/UGT86C11) that catalyzes C19-O-glucosylation of diterpenes with strict scaffold selectivity.