Following
are few of the plant mechanisms that are being focusing
on, to probe their key molecular specifiers in an attempt
to control them: plant defence, flowering, plant-pathogen
interactions. The process of establishing rational methods
for probing human disease conditions (cancers, asthma
and Type-II diabetes) starting from their interactomes,
to their targets, ultimately to arrive at putative leads
using network biology approach is being looked into. Apart
from screening openly available databases of small molecules,
with the known curative effects of plant products, the
group also aim at identifying role of certain plant-derived
molecules to explain their mode of action and to discover
new leads.
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