Re: [DIYbio] Increasing production of compounds already present in a plant?

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On 22 June 2014 05:23:27 GMT+01:00, Andrew Willoughby <andrew.willoughby369@gmail.com> wrote:
Sadly maybe not a lot of commercial potential besides novelty, but an idea I've been playing around with is caffeinated oranges. Not to harvest the caffeine itself, but just as an alternative to coffee in the morning. I knew that citrus plants already have slight amounts of caffeine in them (very VERY small amounts), so even if the synthesis pathway is different from coffee's it doesn't seem as hard to increase the caffeine amount as it would be if you had to completely engineer the pathway into the plant. The problem is I have found about 8 articles that would help, but they are so expensive! 


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