Research Group: Plant Metabolic Plasticity
We study glutathione transferases as novel key enzymes in specialized metabolism and their associated metabolic grids, and the defense compounds cyanogenic glucosides as a model for metabolic plasticity of specialized metabolism.
Plants produce a multitude of complex and species specific metabolites to defend themselves against herbivores and pathogens, attract pollinators or symbionts, or mitigate abiotic stresses. These specialized metabolites are traditionally viewed as end products with a single physiological function. We challenge this view and uncover metabolic grids allowing plants to fine-tune their allocation of resources between molecules of different functions according to their physiological state or in response to environmental challenges.
- Plant glutathione transferases (GSTs)
- Cyanogenic glucosides - metabolic enzymes and alternative physiological functions
- Mass spectrometry imaging for plant science
- Sorghum
For students wishing to work within these topics,. M.Sc. and B.Sc. projects are currently available. Please contact nnb@plen.ku.dk
- GSTspecial: Glutathione transferases in plant specialized metabolism
- Advancing Mass Spectrometry Imaging for plant research
- Associate Professor Christian Janfelt, The Health Faculty, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Professor Robert Edwards, Newcastle University, UK
- Professor Ian Godwin, University of Queensland, Australia
- Professor Anders Meibom, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Assistant Professor Tiffany Porta/Post doc Lucia Montini. M4I, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Senior Scientist Ilka Braumann. Carlsberg Research Laboratory, Denmark
Group members
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nanna Bjarnholt | Associate Professor - Promotion Programme | +4535331136 | |
| Nikola Micic | Special Consultant | +4535332348 |
