Project description
It takes a (microbial) village
One of the reasons fruits, vegetables and whole grains help protect us against non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, has to do with plant metabolism. Flavonoids are secondary metabolites produced by many plants that help them combat oxidative stress and act as growth regulators. They have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties in people. Despite the tremendous interest in flavonoids, their industrial production is currently immature. In nature, they are produced via complex physical and chemical pathways involving trafficking of chemicals throughout plant compartments. To better mimic this and even open the door to the production of flavonoids not seen in nature, the EU-funded SynBio4Flav project is developing synthetic microbial communities with members genetically programmed to execute specific steps in the complex biosynthetic pathways.
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H2020-NMBP-BIO-2018-two-stage
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
28006 Madrid
Spain
Participants (10)
41296 Goeteborg
14558 Nuthetal
50-375 Wroclaw
17489 Greifswald
33003 Oviedo
69730 Genay
46980 Paterna Valencia
00131 Roma
37603 Holzminden
1020 Vienna