Bacteria could be rich source for making terpenes
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - 18:00
in Biology & Nature
Bacteria could be a rich source of terpenes, the natural compounds common in plants and fungi that are used to make drugs, food additives, perfumes, and other products, a new study suggests. The work also suggests that there may be many new terpene products as yet undiscovered hiding in the genomes of bacteria.