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Plant Terpenoids for Human Health: a chemical and genomic approach to identify and produce bioactive compounds


Category

FP7 Project with U.S. partner

Short name and number

TERPMED (227448)

Area

Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology

Description

Plant secondary metabolites are an important source of therapeutic drugs or drug leads. The advent of genomic and metabolomic technologies has now made it possible to bring the field of plant natural products into the 21st century and replace serendipitous and haphazard finding by rational design and discovery. This proposal is devoted to plant terpenes, the largest and most diverse group of plant natural products.

Participating Countries

Greece, Spain, The Netherlands and United States.

Name of US Partner

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

Contact

UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA

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BILAT-USA (Grant Agreement no: 244434) and Link2US (Grant Agreement no: 244371) Projects are co-funded by the European Union’s Capacities Programme on International Cooperation under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Cooperation.