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Aromatic plants (e.g., sweet basil, turmeric and ginger) present excellent model systems research to identify these mechanisms because i) they synthesize high amounts of specialized compounds, ii) a substantial diversity of compounds can be found in closely related species, and iii) these compounds are often synthesized in specialized structures, such as rhizomes or secretory glands, which makes it possible to investigate the exact role of specific enzymes and genes in the production of specific metabolites in isolation from other major biochemical pathways. We can do this with the glands because these structures (known as the secretory peltate glandular trichomes) can be isolated, intact, from the rest of the plant (as is also the case for the terpenoid-producing glands from mint).

Our research seeks to elucidate the biosynthetic pathways that produce novel and important plant specialized metabolites in aromatic plants, to uncover the mechanisms responsible for the evolution of these pathways in the plant kingdom and to understand the function of a given natural product in the biology and physiology of a given plant species. The most productive approach in this area has been a multidisciplinary one-which utilizes the best tools from the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, plant physiology, whole organism biology and ecology-because understanding the role that a specific metabolite plays in the plant requires an understanding of the whole complexity surrounding its formation and utilization. Tools are only now becoming available which allow us to gain this understanding.Besides the intrinsic scientific value of understanding plant metabolism and how plants produce specific natural products, such knowledge is essential for rational custom-designed breeding (by classical methods) of targeted natural product profiles in chemically tailored plants. This knowledge is also essential for the application of genetic engineering techniques to improve and develop new aromatic plants.

Bob Buchanan has served as department chair at UC-Berkeley and was president of the American Society of Plant Physiologists from 1995 to 1996. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His other honors include the Bessenyei Medal from the Hungarian Ministry of Education, the Kettering Award for Excellence in Photosynthesis from the American Society of Plant Physiologists, and the Distinguished Achievement Award from his undergraduate alma mater, Emory and Henry College.

Wilhelm Gruissem was born in Germany, where he studied biology and chemistry and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Marburg and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and in 1983 joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. He chaired the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC-Berkeley from 1993 to 1998, and since 1998 has been director of a collaborative research program between the department and the Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute in San Diego. In July 2000, he will join the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich as professor of plant biotechnology. He has taught general biology and plant molecular biology to undergraduate and graduate students. His research focuses on pathways and molecules involved in plant growth control and regulation of chloroplast development.

Willi Gruissem is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of several learned societies. He serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals and has received a number of honors and awards for his research program.

Russell Jones was born in Wales and completed his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan State University-Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory with Anton Lang before being appointed to the faculty of the Department of Botany at the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. He is now a professor of plant biology at UC-Berkeley, where he teaches undergraduate classes in general biology and graduate courses in plant physiology and cell biology. His research focuses on hormonal regulation in plants using the cereal aleurone as a model system, with approaches that exploit the techniques of biochemistry, biophysics, and cell and molecular biology.

Russell Jones was president of the American Society of Plant Physiologists from 1993 to 1994. He was a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Nottingham in 1972, a Miller Professor at UC-Berkeley in 1976, a Humboldt Prize Winner at the University of Goettingen in 1986, and a RIKEN Eminent Scientist, RIKEN, Japan, in 1996.

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