Level of organization: plants, plant ecosystem
Scientific topic included: medicinal plant natural products, defense-related compounds, pigments, fragrances, and other specialized metabolites.
Scope: Studies that advance our understanding of:
- the structural diversity and biosynthetic origins of plant natural products,
- the discovery and characterization of novel metabolites and biosynthetic enzymes,
- the regulation of specialized metabolic pathways,
- the physiological and ecological functions of these compounds.
Research involving metabolic engineering and synthetic biology would also be welcome when it provides new insights into plant specialized metabolism.
Subject Editor
Sheng-Hong
Li
State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources, West China Kunming Institute of Botany, China
Areas of expertise: biological activities, biosynthesis and synthetic biology, ecological functions, plant glandular trichomes, plant secondary metabolites, terpenoid diversity
shli@mail.kib.ac.cn Research webpageHandling Editors
Stefan
Martens
Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
Areas of expertise: biological activities, biosynthesis, flavonoids, gene discovery, heterologous expression systems, metabolomics, plant secondary metabolites, polyphenols, synthetic biology, transcriptomics
stefan.martens@fmach.it Research webpage
Eirini
Sarrou
Hellenic Agricultural Organisation DIMITRA, Thessaloniki, Greece
Areas of expertise: biosynthesis, phenotyping, polyphenols, secondary metabolites, stress, terpenes
esarrou@elgo.gr Research webpage