Thiti Suttiyut, Manoj Ghaste, and Joshua Widhalm along with others from the Purdue Center for Plant Biology published a paper in Horticulture Research entitled “Integrative analysis of the shikonin metabolic network identifies new gene connections and reveals evolutionary insight into shikonin biosynthesis. The paper is available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhab087.
George Meyer, PhD student in Dr. Josh Widhalm’s laboratory, received a USDA-NIFA predoctoral fellowship award. George will study the metabolic mechanisms evolved by the black walnut tree to resist the phytotoxic effects of its produced allelochemical juglone. George’s proposal is titled “Investigation of metabolic mechanisms underlying juglone resistance.”