date:Aug 21, 2017
ly is this chemical itself used as a drug, it also serves as a starting material in the manufacture of additional drugs, particularly opiates such as morphine. Plants and microbes engineered to convert tyrosine into L-dopa may therefore serve as a source of this valuable material.
The research team included Noam Grossman, Dr. Yonghui Dong, Margarita Pliner and Dr. Ilana Rogachev of Weizmanns Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, and Dr. Maggie Levy, Dr. David Vela-Corcia and Adi Nudel of