Medicinal plants produce a wide array of bioactive compounds
with significant pharmaceutical value. Plant transcription factors (TFs) play a
pivotal role in regulating the biosynthesis of these compounds. The chapter
provides an overview of the key TF families, molecular mechanisms of TF
mediated regulation, TF-DNA interactions, TF-TF interactions, regulatory
networks and recent advances in TF based approaches for enhancing the
production of valuable bioactive compounds in medicinal plants. The complex regulatory
networks controlling active compound biosynthesis were considered while
shedding light on novel strategies for improving the yield and quality of
plant-derived products. Recent research in the field of molecular engineering
using transcription factors in medicinal plants, with the examples included in
the chapter, may encourage the budding molecular biologist to adapt new
technologies and tools for the enhanced biosynthesis of secondary metabolites.
The chapter will provide a synopsis of scientific tools and techniques which
can be exploited in the field of tissue culture and secondary metabolite
production. Optimisation and enhancement of the pharmacologically relevant
bioactive compound production can be achieved through the administration of
specific transcriptional regulation factors. The knowledge of the biosynthetic
pathway of pharmaceutically significant therapeutics can be applied to the
invention of novel bioreactors in the biopharma industry.
Author(s) Details
Manju Rakesh
Department of Botany, Haribhai V. Desai College, Pune-411 002, Maharashtra,
India.
Please see the link:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rpbs/v9/6694
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