| Literature DB >> 33809189 |
Raffaella Balestrini1, Cecilia Brunetti1, Maria Cammareri2, Sofia Caretto3, Valeria Cavallaro4, Eleonora Cominelli5, Monica De Palma2, Teresa Docimo2, Giovanna Giovinazzo3, Silvana Grandillo2, Franca Locatelli5, Erica Lumini1, Dario Paolo5, Cristina Patanè4, Francesca Sparvoli5, Marina Tucci2, Elisa Zampieri1.
Abstract
Plant specialized metabolites (SMs) play an important role in the interaction with the environment and are part of the plant defense response. These natural products are volatile, semi-volatile and non-volatile compounds produced from common building blocks deriving from primary metabolic pathways and rapidly evolved to allow a better adaptation of plants to environmental cues. Specialized metabolites include terpenes, flavonoids, alkaloids, glucosinolates, tannins, resins, etc. that can be used as phytochemicals, food additives, flavoring agents and pharmaceutical compounds. This review will be focused on Mediterranean crop plants as a source of SMs, with a special attention on the strategies that can be used to modulate their production, including abiotic stresses, interaction with beneficial soil microorganisms and novel genetic approaches.Entities:
Keywords: advanced breeding; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; biotechnological approaches; cell bio-factory; elicitation; glandular trichomes; omics; plant growth-promoting bacteria; secondary metabolites; stress response; transcriptional networks
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Year: 2021 PMID： 33809189 PMCID： PMC7999214 DOI： 10.3390/ijms22062887
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Mol Sci ISSN： 1422-0067 Impact factor: 5.923