Lobelia cardinalis

University of Kentucky Professors John Littleton (Psychology),  Greg Gerhardt (Anatomy and Neurobiology, Center for Microelectrode Technology, Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Center of Excellence), and doctoral student Dustin Brown have written a scientific paper for publication entitled “Target-directed evolution of plant biosynthesis toward a specific pharmacological phenotype”.

According to LIttleton, "We expressed the human dopamine transporter (DAT) in plant cells and then selected a mutant population of these transgenic cells in MPP+, a DAergic neurotoxin that is accumulated intracellularly by the DAT. Transgenic mutants that over-