Plant Secondary Metabolites in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2322
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant secondary metabolites; plant tissue culture; plant transformation; phytochemicals; medicinal plants; metabolic engineering
Interests: date palm biotechnology; plant secondary metabolites; plant tissue culture
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants have been serving mankind since the dawn of history by providing food, medicine, and shelter. They produce a wide variety of beneficial phytochemicals, including primary and secondary metabolites. The primary metabolites aid the plants’ growth, development, and reproduction, while the secondary metabolites take part in defense mechanisms against biotic and abiotic stress. Medicinal and aromatic plants have shown tremendous potential in treating and preventing numerous human diseases. The intervention of biotechnological approaches proved effective for the development of elite germplasm with desired characteristics, conservation of germplasm, development of high-yielding plants, and production of plant secondary metabolites (PSMs).
The research papers published on the proposed research topic will focus on secondary metabolites of medicinal and aromatic plants. Innovations in metabolomics will also be considered.
The scope of this theme includes but is not limited to:
- In vitro approaches for the conservation and sustainable utilization of medicinal and aromatic plants.
- In vitro production of plant secondary metabolites from callus and cell suspension cultures.
- Biotechnological approaches for the production of PSMs from organ cultures.
- In vitro production of PSMs in relation to biotic (bacteria, fungi, algae) and abiotic (nanoparticles, heavy metals, signaling molecules) elicitors for the enhanced production of PSMs in medicinal and aromatic plants.
- Metabolic engineering of plant secondary metabolism in medicinal and aromatic plants.
- Metabolomic studies of medicinal and aromatic plants.
Dr. Praveen Nagella
Prof. Dr. Jameel M. Al-Khayri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant secondary metabolites
- medicinal and aromatic plants
- metabolic engineering
- metabolomics
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