Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering in Plants and Microbes Part B

1. Comparative Biochemistry and in Vitro Pathway Reconstruction as Powerful Partners in Studies of Metabolic Diversity Pengxiang Fan, Gaurav D. Moghe and Robert L. Last 2. De Novo Deep Transcriptome Analysis of Medicinal Plants for Gene Discovery in Biosynthesis of Plant Natural Products Rongchun Han, Amit Rai, Michimi Nakamura, Hideyuki Suzuki, Hiroki Takahashi, Mami Yamazaki and Kazuki Saito 3. Genomics Based Discovery of Plant Genes for Synthetic Biology of Terpenoid Fragrances: A Case Study in Sandalwood Oil Biosynthesis Jose M. Celedon  and Jörg Bohlmann 4. A Workflow for Studying Specialized Metabolism in Non-Model Eukaryotic Organisms Michael P. Torrens-Spence, Timothy R. Fallon and  Jing-Ke Weng 5. Gene Discovery for Synthetic Biology: Exploring the Novel Natural Product Biosynthetic Capacity of Eukaryotic Microalgae Ellis C. O’Neill, Gerhard Saalbach and Robert A. Field 6. Cis-Prenyltransferase and Polymer Analysis from a Natural Rubber Perspective Moonhyuk Kwon, Eun-Joo Gina Kwon and Dae-Kyun Ro 7. Generation and Functional Evaluation of Designer Monoterpene Synthases Narayanan Srividya, Iris Lange and Bernd Markus Lange 8. Prequels to Synthetic Biology: From Candidate Gene Identification and Validation to Enzyme Subcellular Localization in Plant and Yeast Cells Emilien Foureau, Inês Carqueijeiro, Thomas Dugé de Bernonville, Céline Melin, Florent Lafontaine, Sébastien Besseau, Arnaud Lanoue, Nicolas Papon, Audrey Oudin, Gaëlle Glévarec, Marc Clastre, Benoit St-Pierre, Nathalie Giglioli-Guivarc’h and Vincent Courdavault 9. Functional Expression and Characterization of Plant ABC Transporters in Xenopus Laevis Oocytes for Transport Engineering Purposes Deyang Xu, Dorottya Veres, Zeinu Mussa Belew, Carl Erik Olsen, Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin and Barbara Ann Halkier 10. Quantifying the Metabolites of the Methylerythritol 4-Phosphate (Mep) Pathway in Plants and Bacteria by Liquid Chromatography – Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry Diego González-Cabanelas, Almuth Hammerbacher, Bettina Raguschke, Jonathan Gershenzon and Louwrance P. Wright 11. Establishing the Architecture of Plant Gene Regulatory Networks Fan Yang, Wilberforce Zachary Ouma, Wei Li, Andrea I. Doseff, and Erich Grotewold 12. Engineering of Tomato Glandular Trichomes for the Production of Specialized Metabolites Ruy W.J. Kortbeek, Jiesen Xu, Aldana Ramirez, Eleni Spyropoulou, Paul Diergaarden, Ilona Otten-Bruggeman, Michiel de Both, Raimund Nagel, Axel Schmidt, Robert C. Schuurink and Petra M. Bleeker 13. Tomato Fruits – a Platform for Metabolic Engineering of Terpenes Michael Gutensohn, and Natalia Dudareva 14. Libraries of Synthetic Tale-Activated Promoters: Methods and Application Tom Schreiber and Alain Tissier