Researchers at Kunming Institute of Botany achieve ab-initio biosynthesis of cocaine in tobacco

A team led by Shengxiong Huang at the CAS Kunming Institute of Botany has used a combination of transcriptome analysis, molecular biology, and organic chemical synthesis to solve the long-standing century-old problem of cocaine tropane backbone construction and achieved the ab initio construction of cocaine synthesis pathway in tobacco.

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