Sentences with phrase «identifying plant metabolites»
«Wise plant analysis: Identifying plant metabolites.»
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To address the challenge of identifying the majority of such «specialized metabolites» in any given plant, Dr. Nir Shahaf and other members of a team headed by Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann's Plant and Environmental Sciences Department created a database of plant metabolites, called Weizplant, Dr. Nir Shahaf and other members of a team headed by Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann's Plant and Environmental Sciences Department created a database of plant metabolites, called WeizPlant and Environmental Sciences Department created a database of plant metabolites, called Weizplant metabolites, called WeizMass.
«WeizMass and MatchWeiz can serve as extremely powerful tools for studying plant metabolism and identifying metabolites with useful biological activity, including potential drugs,» says Aharoni.
Shahaf then developed a computer tool, MatchWeiz, which makes it possible to identify the metabolites by checking experimental results from the metabolic analysis of a particular plant against the database.