Vitamins in Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 996
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vitamins metabolism; transcription regulation; natural products biochemistry; bioactive molecules; crop quality; biofortification
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The journal Plants will be publishing a Special Issue on vitamin in plants. Micronutrient deficiency, also known as “hidden hunger”, refers to the inadequate intake of vitamins and/or minerals. Biofortification, a food-based strategy of increasing the bioavailability and/or level of nutrients in crops to improve human health, can be achieved through breeding as well as metabolic engineering. It has been proven to be a cost-effective means to reduce vitamin shortage in humans. These plant-produced vitamins include provitamin A, non-provitA carotenoids, Vitamin B1 (thiamine and its derivatives, vitB1), vitB2 (riboflavin), vitB3 (niacin, nicotinamide, and nicotinamide riboside), vitB5 (pantothenate), vitB6 (pyridoxine, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine, and phosphorylated derivatives), vitB7 (biotin), vitB9 (folates and their derivatives), vitC (ascorbate), and VitE (tocochromanols consisting of tocopherol and tocotrienol). All these vitamins play important roles in the biology of human health as well as plant metabolism. Abscisic acid, strigolactones and ethylene are plant hormones sharing same synthetic pathway of amino acids and terpenes with vitamins. These metabolites are important to plant growth and yield. Thus, this Special Issue will cover a wide variety of areas, including metabolisms of vitamin derivatives, precursors, related hormones, amino acids and terpenes, biofortification, and their application in plant growth and yield, aiming to contribute to the overall knowledge of vitamin in plants from several aspects.
Dr. Ling Jiang
Dr. Dayong Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vitamin
- plant
- crop
- vegetable
- fruit
- medicine plant
- regulation
- biofortification
- carotenoids
- thiamine
- riboflavin
- niacin
- nicotinamide
- nicotinamide riboside
- pantothenate
- pyridoxine
- pyridoxal
- pyridoxamine
- biotin
- folates
- ascorbate
- tocochromanols
- tocopherol
- tocotrienol
- abscisic acid
- strigolactones
- ethylene
- amino acids
- terpenes
