Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering in Plants and Microbes Part B: Metabolism in Plants

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