{"id":16632,"date":"2015-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/beyond-the-poppy-a-new-method-of-opium-production\/"},"modified":"2015-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T04:00:00","slug":"beyond-the-poppy-a-new-method-of-opium-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/beyond-the-poppy-a-new-method-of-opium-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the poppy: a new method of opium production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to new studies by researchers from Concordia University in Montreal and the<br \/>University of California, Berkeley, yeast can be engineered to convert sugar to alkaloids \u2014\u00a0plant-derived compounds such as codeine and morphine, naturally produced in the opium\u00a0poppy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to research by teams led by Vincent Martin at Concordia and John Dueber at UC\u00a0Berkeley, the key steps needed to make yeast able to produce alkaloids from inexpensive sugar\u00a0have been identified. The research was made possible in part by funding from Genome Canada and G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchembio\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nchembio.1816.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchembio\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nchembio.1816.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new studies by researchers from Concordia University in Montreal and theUniversity of California, Berkeley, yeast can be engineered to convert sugar to alkaloids \u2014\u00a0plant-derived compounds such as codeine&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}