Plant Metabolism and Natural Product Biosynthesis

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to introduce our new Special Issue. This Special Issue, entitled “Plant Metabolism and Natural Product Biosynthesis”, is supervised by Dr. Andrej Frolov and assisted by Dr. Anastasia Orlova (Laboratory of Analytical Biochemistry and Biotechnology, K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Science). The scope of this Special Issue includes all aspects of plant primary and secondary metabolism, with special emphasis on biosynthetic processes, including biotechnology applications and other practical implementations. In this Special Issue, we aim to address both the whole complexity of the plant biochemical network (by means of metabolomics techniques and bioinformatics tools) and individual reactions of this network probed by the methods of enzymology, molecular biology, and genome modification techniques. Thus, on the one hand, we invite the submission of manuscripts focused on the comprehensive profiling of multiple metabolites, which might give access to plant metabolic responses (both at the tissue/organ and systemic level) to ecological constrains and/or insights into the aspects of plant physiological integrity, development, and systematics. On the other hand, descriptions of new pathways and reactions (both in general and for specific plants) and structural assignments of new metabolites are welcomed. The regulation of plant metabolism is another aspect that we aim to cover in our Special Issue. Finally, manuscripts focused on analytical techniques for plant metabolism research are encouraged to be part of this Special Issue.

Dr. Andrej Frolov
Guest Editor

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