The effect of red light and far-red light conditions on secondary metabolism in agarwood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Agarwood, a heartwood derived from Aquilaria trees, is a valuable commodity that has seen prevalent use among many cultures. In particular, it is widely used in herbal medicine and many compounds in agarwood are known to exhibit medicinal properties. Although there exists much research into medicinal herbs and extraction of high value compounds, few have focused on increasing the quantity of target compounds through stimulation of its related pathways in this species.

Results

In this study, we observed that cucurbitacin yield can be increased through the use of different light conditions to stimulate related pathways and conducted three types of high-throughput sequencing experiments in order to study the effect of light conditions on secondary metabolism in agarw

SUBMITTER: Kuo TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4464252 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature