Secondary metabolites promise an increasing value for the treatment of metabolic disorders and infectious diseases. With the progress achieved in molecular biology and metabolomic studies, those metabolites have the potential to be produced more cost-effectively and efficiently through biotechnology compared to current synthetic chemical compounds used in pharmaceuticals, which require costly design and synthesis strategies.
These advantages also offer low-cost, environmentally friendly, clean, and optimized options for precursor production at the laboratory level from microorganisms and plants, as well as an option for the conservation of endemic plant species that are a source of valuable chemical substances and threatened with extinction.
The background of this Research Topic is especially composed of work on microorganisms through metabolic engineering together with plant biotechnology based on plant tissue culture samples (hairy root, callus, and embryo cultures, etc.) and related fields (instrumental analysis, biochemistry, biological activity studies, etc.).
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research and Review articles on microbial and plant biotechnology applications of valuable compounds and their production and related topics.
Studies with the potential to be published in this Research Topic should include, but are not limited to, the following features:
- Metabolic engineering applications on microorganisms and plants
- Cost-effective production of pharmaceutical compounds via plant tissue culture
- Purification and characterization of economically valuable components
- Tissue culture studies of endangered endemic plants capable of producing valuable secondary metabolites and determination of their metabolic content
- Advances in gene-editing technologies for enhancing pharmaceutical production
- Novel biotechnological approaches for drug discovery and development
Keywords:
biotechnology, secondary metabolites, metabolomic studies, molecular biology, cost effective, purification, characterization, production, metabolic engineering
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Secondary metabolites promise an increasing value for the treatment of metabolic disorders and infectious diseases. With the progress achieved in molecular biology and metabolomic studies, those metabolites have the potential to be produced more cost-effectively and efficiently through biotechnology compared to current synthetic chemical compounds used in pharmaceuticals, which require costly design and synthesis strategies.
These advantages also offer low-cost, environmentally friendly, clean, and optimized options for precursor production at the laboratory level from microorganisms and plants, as well as an option for the conservation of endemic plant species that are a source of valuable chemical substances and threatened with extinction.
The background of this Research Topic is especially composed of work on microorganisms through metabolic engineering together with plant biotechnology based on plant tissue culture samples (hairy root, callus, and embryo cultures, etc.) and related fields (instrumental analysis, biochemistry, biological activity studies, etc.).
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research and Review articles on microbial and plant biotechnology applications of valuable compounds and their production and related topics.
Studies with the potential to be published in this Research Topic should include, but are not limited to, the following features:
- Metabolic engineering applications on microorganisms and plants
- Cost-effective production of pharmaceutical compounds via plant tissue culture
- Purification and characterization of economically valuable components
- Tissue culture studies of endangered endemic plants capable of producing valuable secondary metabolites and determination of their metabolic content
- Advances in gene-editing technologies for enhancing pharmaceutical production
- Novel biotechnological approaches for drug discovery and development
Keywords:
biotechnology, secondary metabolites, metabolomic studies, molecular biology, cost effective, purification, characterization, production, metabolic engineering
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.