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Plant Chemical Genetics: From Phenotype-Based Screens to Synthetic Biology.
Plant physiology - 1 May 2017
Dejonghe Wim, Russinova Eugenia
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The treatment of a biological system with small molecules to specifically perturb cellular functions is commonly referred to as chemical biology. Small molecules are used commercially as drugs, herbicides, and fungicides in different systems, but in recent years they are increasingly exploited as tools for basic research. For instance, chemical genetics involves the discovery of small-molecule effectors of...
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