Overcoming Bottlenecks for Metabolic Engineering of Sesquiterpene Production in Tomato Fruits.

ABSTRACT: Terpenoids are a large and diverse class of plant metabolites that also includes volatile mono- and sesquiterpenes which are involved in biotic interactions of plants. Due to the limited natural availability of these terpenes and the tight regulation of their biosynthesis, there is strong interest to introduce or enhance their production in crop plants by metabolic engineering for agricultural, pharmaceutical and industrial applications. While engineering of monoterpenes has been quite successful, expression of sesquiterpene synthases in engineered plants frequently resulted in production of only minor amounts of sesquiterpenes. To identify bottlenecks for sesquiterpene engineering in plants, we have used two nearly identical terpene synthases, snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) nerolid

SUBMITTER: Gutensohn M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8248349 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature