Jo, Seohyun http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5742-2376
El-Demerdash, Amr http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6459-2955
Owen, Charlotte http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9023-2179
Srivastava, Vikas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4168-3197
Wu, Dewei
Kikuchi, Shingo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9033-6242
Reed, James http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-6134
Hodgson, Hannah http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9499-7037
Harkess, Alex
Shu, Shengqiang
Plott, Chris http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0109-5174
Jenkins, Jerry http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7943-3997
Williams, Melissa
Boston, Lori-Beth
Lacchini, Elia
Qu, Tongtong
Goossens, Alain
Grimwood, Jane http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8356-8325
Schmutz, Jeremy
Leebens-Mack, Jim http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4811-2231
Osbourn, Anne http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-5810
Funding for this research was provided by:
RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/W017857/1, BB/V015176/1, BB/T015063/1, BB/X01097X/1, BB/W017857/1, BB/V015176/1, BB/X01097X/1, BB/T015063/1)
Royal Society (NIF\R1\211270, NIF\R1\211270)
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (AT010593-01, AT010593-01)
John Innes Foundation (-, -, -)
DOE | Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-05CH11231)
Article History
Received: 14 October 2023
Accepted: 18 June 2024
First Online: 23 July 2024
Competing interests
: S.J. and A.O. are inventors of a patent arising from this work (WO2024/003012, published), which relates to the biosynthesis of complex triterpenoid saponins and intermediates using the identified saponarioside pathway genes reported here. The other authors declare no competing interests.