Chemistry Agrochemistry

The lab at National Taiwan University has developed a simple fluorescence-based method to rapidly test the activity of an enzyme that phosphorylates phenolic compounds. This new platform makes it much easier to screen thousands of enzyme variants and provides a practical tool for exploring and improving phenolic compound–phosphorylating enzymes.

Feeding bacteria a cheap agricultural by-product enables the production of high-value biomaterials with promising biomedical and industrial applications.

Early marine algae adapted their light-harvesting systems for weak blue-green light, suggesting how photosynthesis evolved.