Biomolecular Mechanisms of Natural Products: Cannabis and Alkaloid-Producing Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Plants are fantastic biosynthetic factories, producing hundreds of thousands of compounds including alkaloids, cannabinoids, phenolics, and terpenes. Alkaloids have long been a critical source of ethnogens, poisons, recreational drugs, and invaluable medicines. Similarly, Cannabis sativa has a long and complex history with humans as a feed, fiber, food, and medicine, along with its recreational and ethnogenic applications. The ability to synthesize a wide range of compounds underlies cannabis’s diverse applications. Understanding how alkaloids and cannabis-derived compounds are regulated, produced, function, and target pathways in other species enables assessments of their benefits and risks in food, feed, and medicine products.

This Special Issue, titled “Biomolecular Mechanisms of Natural Products: Cannabis and Alkaloid-Producing Plants”, broadly seeks to elucidate underlying genetic, biosynthetic, regulatory, and other molecular mechanisms of cannabis and alkaloid-producing plants. Studies may be on cannabis or alkaloid-producing plants directly or how these compounds affect other species. While purely clinical trials are outside the scope of this journal, clinical studies exploring the compounds target biomolecular components are relevant to this Special Issue.

Dr. Craig M. Schluttenhofer
Guest Editor

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• alkaloids
• biosynthesis
• cannabis
• cannabinoids
• hemp
• natural products