Production of Secondary Metabolites In Vitro
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 11501
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant propagation; in vitro culture; micropropagation; production of secondary metabolites in vitro; medicinal plants; ex situ conservation; native flora
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: medicinal and aromatic plant breeding; plants secondary metabolites; metabolomics; functional genomics
Interests: plant propagation; plant sustainable exploitation; Greek aromatic-medicinal crops; Greek plants with ornamental value; Greek plants with nutritional value; ex-situ plant conservation; soilless culture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Secondary plant metabolites are not essential to plant growth, but are required for the plant to survive in its environment. They are produced in small amounts, usually have very complicated structures and often accumulate in specialized tissues. Secondary metabolites are used as especially chemicals such as drugs, flavours, fragrances, insecticides, and dyes and thus have a great economic value. Plants, such as medicinal/aromatic plants (MAPs) contain various secondary metabolites (e.g., alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides, phenols, saponins), in their tissues, commercially valuable. An alternative to agricultural processes for producing secondary metabolites, is the in vitro culture, running in controlled environment, independently from climate and soil conditions. It is still in its infancy the knowledge of biosynthetic pathways of phytochemicals and desired phytochemicals in plants. This Special Issue of Plants will highlight the significance, function, complexity and potential applications of secondary metabolites that are produced in vitro and will suggest strategies to improve the in vitro production of secondary metabolites.
Dr. Katerina Grigoriadou
Dr. Eleni Maloupa
Dr. Eirini Sarrou
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Dr. Katerina Grigoriadou
Dr. Eleni Maloupa
Dr. Eirini Sarrou
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Plants is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- medicinal/aromatic plants
- micropropagation
- in vitro plant material
- developmental stages
- secondary metabolites
- bioactive compounds
- essential oils
- volatiles
- isolation of metabolites, metabolomics
- extraction of metabolites
- culture medium
- secretory activity
- secretory rate
- elicitors
- enzyme activity
- metabolic pathways
- metabolic engineering
- bioreactors