Molecular Studies on Plant and Plant In Vitro Systems Secondary Metabolism
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2024 | Viewed by 664
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural products; plant-derived extracts and molecules; medicinal plants; plant in vitro systems; natural products pharmacology
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Dear Colleagues,
For centuries, plants have been intensively utilized as reliable sources of food and flavoring, and as agrochemical and pharmaceutical ingredients. Along with the primary metabolites, plants are notable for their considerable spectrum of secondary (or specialized) metabolites (SMs), such as phenylpropanoids and their derivatives (flavonoids, phenolic acids, tannins, glycosides, and lignins), terpenes (isoprenoids and terpenoids), and nitrogen-containing compounds (alkaloids and heterocyclic aromatics) that possess beneficial biological activities which are important to humans, including anticancer, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, antivirus, antimicrobial, and antioxidant properties, among others. Currently, these compounds are obtained via plant raw material extraction, plant in vitro systems cultivation, or chemical synthesis (which in most cases is economically not feasible). In general, the content of these SMs in plants is very low (<1%); therefore, approaches for enhancing the biosynthesis of high-value marketable molecules produced via plant/plant in vitro systems, such as metabolic engineering and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), along with CRISPR-associated proteins (Cas), have been frequently applied.
The present Special Issue (SI) is dedicated to discussing the various advances in studying the molecular networks of secondary metabolism accumulation in plants and plant in vitro systems. The SI is open for original research articles, short communications, and reviews.
Dr. Andrey Marchev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plants
- plant in vitro systems
- secondary metabolism
- sustainable production
- elicitation
- metabolic engineering
- CRISPR/Cas
- molecular targets
