High-value active ingredients in medicinal plants have attracted research attention because
of their benefits for human health, such as the antimalarial artemisinin, anticardiovascular …

Plant secondary biosynthetic pathways are exceedingly inducible by elicitors and facilitate
enhanced metabolite production using plant cell tissue and organ cultures. Elicitors can …

Catharanthus roseus produces a large array of terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIAs) that are an
important source of natural or semisynthetic anticancer drugs. The biosynthesis of TIAs is …

Plant natural products have been extensively exploited in food, medicine, flavor, cosmetic,
renewable fuel, and other industrial sectors. Synthetic biology has recently emerged as a …

Catharanthus roseus produces bioactive terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIA s), including the
chemotherapeutics, vincristine and vinblastine. Transcriptional regulation of TIA …

Plants make specialized bioactive metabolites to defend themselves against attackers. The
conserved control mechanisms are based on transcriptional activation of the respective …

Tanshinone is a group of active diterpenes widely used in treatment of cardiovascular
diseases. Here, we report the introduction of genes encoding 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl …

As the only source for the low-abundance antitumor agents vinblastine and vincristine,
Catharanthus roseus is highly valued and has been studied extensively as a model for …

Medicinal plants are an inevitable source of pharmaceutical drugs and most of the world
population depends on these plants for health benefits. The increasing global demand for …

Hairy root syndrome is a disease that is induced by Agrobacterium rhizogenes infection and
characterized by a proliferation of excessively branching roots. However, in the past 30 …