Unraveling Biosynthetic and Regulatory Mechanisms of Metabolites in Medicinal Plants via Omics-based Approaches
Over 25000 botanical species grown in diverse ecological niches and environmental conditions are potential medicinal plants that harbor low abundance metabolites in specific tissues or organs. Their metabolites are believed to have evolved for plant adaptation to various biotic/abiotic stresses. Aside from being potential therapeutics, many of them also have industrial, food or cosmetics uses. Hence, research on their biosynthesis and regulation has aroused much interest. Unlike bacteria and fungi where genes of metabolite biosynthesis are often clustered together and biochemical reactions in a single biological compartment, synthetic and regulatory processes of plant metabolites are often made with cellular compartmentalization, genetic redundancy, and inter-connected multi-layer regulations. With a shortage of appropriate laboratory culture methods, elucidating the biosynthesis and regulation of medicinal plant metabolites could be challenging. However, improving availability of low-cost and high-quality omics-based approaches provides new opportunities for dissecting their complex networks.
This topic intends to integrate leading research into our understanding of plant medicinal metabolite biosynthesis and regulation from the use of omics-based approaches. We welcome submissions of full-length article and letter of original research or review/mini review related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
1. Omics studies regarding medicinal plants, e.g., genomics, transcriptomic, metabolomics, proteomic.
2. Analytical studies of Omics dataset related to synthetic or regulatory aspects of metabolites.
3. Gene functional studies related to synthetic or regulatory aspects of metabolites.
Guest Editors：
Wei Sun, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Traditional Medical Science, China
Zhichao Xu, College of Life Science, Northeast Forestry University, China
Submission Deadline
The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31th, December 2024, but we can accommodate extensions on a case-by-case basis. All papers will be published online after acceptance.
Submission Instructions
Please submit the full manuscript to Medicinal Plant Biology via our online submission system. Additionally, please choose the topic of this Special Issue when submitting and specify it in your cover letter. For further inquiries, please contact guest editors:
Wei Sun (wsun@icmm.ac.cn)
Zhichao Xu (zcxu@nefu.edu.cn)
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