Anne Osbourn

Isolation, characterization, and avenacin sensitivity of a diverse collection of cereal-root-colonizing fungi.

Fungal resistance to plant antibiotics as a mechanism of pathogenesis.

L-RCA (ligation-rolling circle amplification): a general method for genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).

Tox-boxes, fungal secondary metabolites, and plant disease.

Biosynthesis of triterpenoid saponins in plants.

Saponins in cereals.

Molecular cloning and characterization of triterpene synthases from Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus.

2003 Asilomar meeting report.

Unravelling triterpene glycoside synthesis in plants: phytochemistry and functional genomics join forces.

Comparative transcriptomics of rice reveals an ancient pattern of response to microbial colonization.

The poetry of science.

Dual effects of plant steroidal alkaloids on Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

First encounters--deployment of defence-related natural products by plants.

A different function for a member of an ancient and highly conserved cytochrome P450 family: from essential sterols to plant defense.

Sad3 and sad4 are required for saponin biosynthesis and root development in oat.

Metabolic diversification--independent assembly of operon-like gene clusters in different plants.

SAW: breaking down barriers between art and science.

Operons.

A serine carboxypeptidase-like acyltransferase is required for synthesis of antimicrobial compounds and disease resistance in oats.

Cell type-specific chromatin decondensation of a metabolic gene cluster in oats.

Evolution of serine carboxypeptidase-like acyltransferases in the monocots.

Common genetic pathways regulate organ-specific infection-related development in the rice blast fungus.

Secondary metabolic gene clusters: evolutionary toolkits for chemical innovation.

Gene clusters for secondary metabolic pathways: an emerging theme in plant biology.

From hormones to secondary metabolism: the emergence of metabolic gene clusters in plants.

Investigation of the potential for triterpene synthesis in rice through genome mining and metabolic engineering.

The saponins: polar isoprenoids with important and diverse biological activities.

Formation of plant metabolic gene clusters within dynamic chromosomal regions.

Order in the playground: Formation of plant gene clusters in dynamic chromosomal regions.

Synthetic biology. 4th New Phytologist Workshop, Bristol, UK, June 2012.

Finding and analyzing plant metabolic gene clusters.

Glycosyltransferases from oat (Avena) implicated in the acylation of avenacins.

Modularity of plant metabolic gene clusters: a trio of linked genes that are collectively required for acylation of triterpenes in oat.

A one-pot enzymatic approach to the O-fluoroglucoside of N-methylanthranilate.

Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants.

Biochemical analysis of a multifunctional cytochrome P450 (CYP51) enzyme required for synthesis of antimicrobial triterpenes in plants.

Rapid metabolic pathway assembly and modification using serine integrase site-specific recombination.

Triterpene biosynthesis in plants.

Gene clustering in plant specialized metabolism.

Investigation of triterpene synthesis and regulation in oats reveals a role for β-amyrin in determining root epidermal cell patterning.

Key applications of plant metabolic engineering.

Metabolic and functional diversity of saponins, biosynthetic intermediates and semi-synthetic derivatives.

Regulation of metabolic gene clusters in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Investigation of terpene diversification across multiple sequenced plant genomes.

Temporal transcriptome changes induced by methyl jasmonate in Salvia sclarea.

OSC2 and CYP716A14v2 catalyze the biosynthesis of triterpenoids for the cuticle of aerial organs of Artemisia annua.

MYB Transcription Factors as Regulators of Phenylpropanoid Metabolism in Plants.

Standards for plant synthetic biology: a common syntax for exchange of DNA parts.

Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

Identification and Characterization of the Iridoid Synthase Involved in Oleuropein Biosynthesis in Olive (Olea europaea) Fruits.

Editorial overview: Plant biotechnology.

Delineation of metabolic gene clusters in plant genomes by chromatin signatures.

Plant metabolic clusters - from genetics to genomics.

Computational genomic identification and functional reconstitution of plant natural product biosynthetic pathways.

A conserved amino acid residue critical for product and substrate specificity in plant triterpene synthases.

Convergence and divergence of bitterness biosynthesis and regulation in Cucurbitaceae.

plantiSMASH: automated identification, annotation and expression analysis of plant biosynthetic gene clusters.

Harnessing plant metabolic diversity.

Unearthing a sesterterpene biosynthetic repertoire in the Brassicaceae through genome mining reveals convergent evolution.

A translational synthetic biology platform for rapid access to gram-scale quantities of novel drug-like molecules.

Painting with betalains.

Diverged Plant Terpene Synthases Reroute the Carbocation Cyclization Path towards the Formation of Unprecedented 6/11/5 and 6/6/7/5 Sesterterpene Scaffolds.

Can human experts predict solubility better than computers?

Triterpene Messages from the EU-FP7 Project TriForC.

Identification of key amino acid residues determining product specificity of 2,3-oxidosqualene cyclase in Oryza species.

Engineering terpenoid production through transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana.

Multigenome analysis implicates miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) in metabolic diversification in eudicots.

Sea cucumber genome provides insights into saponin biosynthesis and aestivation regulation.