Advanced Research of Plant Secondary Metabolism 2.0
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: closed (20 June 2024) | Viewed by 225
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant secondary metabolism; plant molecular biology; plants biotechnology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue titled “Advanced Research of Plant Secondary Metabolism”. Plants have developed the capacity to colonize diverse and challenging environments all over the earth. This capacity is due to their secondary metabolism, which allows them to produce secondary metabolites with a broad range of bioactivities, including regulatory functions, signaling, defense, as well as acting as precursors for primary metabolites. Interestingly, the secondary metabolites produced are extremely diverse in terms of their chemical structures, and many are often lineage-specific since plants have adapted to environmental niches during evolution. In addition to fulfilling the physiological needs of plants, secondary metabolites have been used to treat different human diseases and have also been exploited for ecological and ornamental purposes.
This Special Issue focuses on all aspects in the field of research of plant secondary metabolites, analysis of the natural diversity of secondary metabolites, and the elucidation of pathways and regulatory mechanisms to finally enable the metabolic engineering of these beneficial compounds and further manipulation to encapsulate future applications.
Prof. Dr. Maria Lourdes Gómez-Gómez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- secondary metabolites
- pathways
- regulation
- encapsulation
- neofunctionalization
- synthetic pathways
- flavonoids
- terpenoids
- alkaloids
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