Aromatic Plants Metabolic Engineering: A Review

Secondary metabolites of aromatic plants are used in many health applications as drugs, pheromones, insecticides, fragrances, and antioxidants. Due to the huge commercial demand for these secondary metabolites, the need to overcome the insufficient productivity of aromatic plants has become a signif...

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Veröffentlicht in:Agronomy (Basel) 2022-12, Vol.12 (12), p.3131
Hauptverfasser: Shelepova, Olga V., Baranova, Ekaterina N., Tkacheva, Ekaterina V., Evdokimenkova, Yulia B., Ivanovskii, Aleksandr A., Konovalova, Ludmila N., Gulevich, Alexander A.
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Zusammenfassung:Secondary metabolites of aromatic plants are used in many health applications as drugs, pheromones, insecticides, fragrances, and antioxidants. Due to the huge commercial demand for these secondary metabolites, the need to overcome the insufficient productivity of aromatic plants has become a significant challenge. Plant breeding is a traditional, labor-intensive, and limited method to improve the ability of aromatic plants to produce secondary metabolites. Modern methods of biotechnology, including genetic engineering and genome editing, can be useful and cost-effective in improving aromatic plants, as they can increase the efficiency of obtaining plants with high productivity and the creation of resistant forms and breeding lines. This review illustrates the importance of developing methods for the modification of aromatic plants belonging to different families, with a predictable quality, resistance to adverse factors and pests, and intensive growth and high yields and productivity of valuable essential oils. Particular attention is paid to successful examples of the modification of aromatic plants, applied methods, and principal approaches
ISSN:2073-4395
2073-4395
DOI:10.3390/agronomy12123131