Nicotiana spp. as Production Platforms for Bioproducts
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2023) | Viewed by 10720
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metabolic engineering; metabolomics; plant biotechnology; nutraceuticals; plant molecular farming; pathway compartimentalization
Interests: metabolic engineering; metabolomics; plant biotechnology; nutraceuticals; bioprospecting; pathway discovery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metabolic engineering based on classical transgenesis has been widely reported in the genus Nicotiana for molecular farming purposes; more recently, the possibility to fine modulate the production of molecules of interest, thanks to New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBT), has been successfully demonstrated. In this context, the use of non-food crops as biofactories to produce new pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, or biofuels, represent an innovative and efficient solution in a modern and sustainable bioeconomy.
This Special Issue of Metabolites will gather these frontier approaches by publishing reviews and original articles covering the latest developments in Nicotiana species as platforms for producing bioproducts, modulating the expression of genes involved in their pathway/regulation or by synthetic biology approaches.
Specific areas will include, but not be limited to, the use of NPBT to improve the content of desired compounds, to create novel biosynthetic pathways, or to generate improved Nicotiana chassis.
Dr. Olivia Costantina Demurtas
Dr. Sarah Frusciante
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolic engineering
- nicotiana
- plant molecular farming
- synthetic biology
- new plant breeding techniques (NPBT)
- genome editing