Understanding and Engineering a Natural Herbicide from Cyanobacteria

细菌具有令人难以置信的能力，可以产生具有精细生物活性的天然产物，这使得这些化合物成为药物和农用化学品的绝佳候选者。蓝藻是天然产品的重要来源，尽管目前只有有限的数量用于农业或医药。该项目旨在了解和设计从蓝藻生产除草剂分子。为了实现这一目标，该项目将涉及分子生物学、基因表达、天然产物化学和蓝藻微生物学。

Bacteria have an incredible capacity to produce natural products with exquisite bioactivities, which makes these compounds excellent candidates as medicines and agrochemicals. Cyanobacteria are an important source of natural products, although only a limited number are currently used in agriculture or medicine. This project aims to understand and engineer the production of herbicidal molecules from cyanobacteria. To achieve this goal, this project will involve molecular biology, gene expression, natural products chemistry and cyanobacterial microbiology.