Plant Secondary Metabolite Transporters: Diversity, Functionality, and Their Modulation.

ABSTRACT: Secondary metabolites (SMs) play crucial roles in the vital functioning of plants such as growth, development, defense, and survival via their transportation and accumulation at the required site. However, unlike primary metabolites, the transport mechanisms of SMs are not yet well explored. There exists a huge gap between the abundant presence of SM transporters, their identification, and functional characterization. A better understanding of plant SM transporters will surely be a step forward to fulfill the steeply increasing demand for bioactive compounds for the formulation of herbal medicines. Thus, the engineering of transporters by modulating their expression is emerging as the most viable option to achieve the long-term goal of systemic metabolic engineering for enhanced metabolite

SUBMITTER: Nogia P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8580416 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature