Latest Molecular Research in Plant Secondary Metabolism
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: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 9
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Interests: natural products; plant-derived extracts and molecules; medicinal plants; plant in vitro systems; natural product pharmacology
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural products produced by living organisms present two main categories: primary (PMs) and secondary/specialized metabolites (SMs). Plant SMs (terpenoids, phenolics, and nitrogen-containing compounds) are organic substances directly involved in plant defense and resistance on the one hand, and they possess various biological activities such as antimicrobial, antifungal, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and antiproliferative properties, important for humans, on the other hand.
Currently, SMs can be obtained mainly via extraction from plant raw materials, chemical synthesis, and from plant in vitro cultures. Plant biotechnology offers a valuable tool to produce SMs in plant cells, tissues, organs, and plants using elicitation, metabolic engineering, and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) along with CRISPR-associated proteins (Cas) for the enhanced production of key metabolites, allowing for the deciphering and modulating of some metabolic pathways and for them to be used to improve the production of SMs for commercial interest.
This Special Issue (SI) is dedicated to discussing various advances in the study of the molecular networks of the accumulation of SMs in plants and plant in vitro systems, including comprehensive metabolite profiling and fingerprinting. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of original research articles, short communications, and reviews.
Dr. Andrey Marchev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plants
- plant in vitro systems
- secondary metabolism
- metabolite profiling and fingerprinting
- sustainable production
- elicitation
- metabolic engineering
- CRISPR/Cas
- molecular targets
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