Dr Alain Goossens
VIB, Center for Plant Systems Biology (Ghent, Belgium)
Across the plant kingdom, the jasmonate hormone regulates the delicate balance between growth and defenses, including production of bioactive specialized metabolites. Plants produce an overwhelming variety of metabolites, some with biological activities of high interest to human. Goossens’ lab aims to identify the essential components acting in the jasmonate signaling network and to characterize the molecular mechanisms driving plant natural product biosynthesis in crop, medicinal and model plants.
https://www.psb.ugent.be/specialized-metabolism
