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Molecular Regulation Mechanism of Active Compounds in Ornamental Plants
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Molecular Regulation Mechanism of Active Compounds in Ornamental Plants

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1136

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zhenming Yu

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School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 310053, China
Interests: regulation of bioactive metabolites in ornamental/medicinal plants
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Dr. Alexis Marsol

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Laboratory for Aroma Analysis and Enology (LAAE), Department of Analytical Chemistry, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2) (UNIZAR-CITA), Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: bioactive compounds; aroma; sensory science; mass spectrometry; chromatography

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Active compounds are plant-specialized metabolites providing basic nutritional constituents along with unique health benefits. They exhibit specific pharmacological anti-tumor, anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cardiovascular activities in cerebrovascular diseases. Moreover, they play a critical role in ornamental plants’ adaptation to biotic and abiotic stresses.

Ornamental plants refer to all plants with ornamental value, which generally have beautiful flowers or unique forms. They are natural sources of active compounds, such as terpenoids, flavonoids, alkaloids, phenols, and saccharides.

The present Special Issue welcomes original research articles and reviews that focus on studies exploring the active compounds produced by ornamental plants and their potential applications. Studies focusing on how active compounds are regulated by abiotic and biotic factors, exogenous elicitors, and different treatments through high-throughput strategies (including, but not limited to, genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, biochemical, molecular, and omics-based techniques) are also welcome.

Dr. Zhenming Yu
Dr. Alexis Marsol
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • bioinformatics
  • gene expression and regulation
  • ornamental biotechnology
  • multi-omics analysis

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Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of the Salvia miltiorrhiza Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Family in Response to Multiple Abiotic Stresses
by Junyu Chen, Yuxin Ying, Lingtiao Yao, Zhangting Xu, Zhenming Yu and Guoyin Kai
Plants 2024, 13(5), 580; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13050580 - 21 Feb 2024
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Salvia miltiorrhiza is a plant commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. Its material bases for treating diseases are tanshinones and phenolic acids, including salvianolic acids. Histone deacetylase proteins (HDACs) are a class of specific functional enzymes that interact with acetylation groups on the [...] Read more.
Salvia miltiorrhiza is a plant commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. Its material bases for treating diseases are tanshinones and phenolic acids, including salvianolic acids. Histone deacetylase proteins (HDACs) are a class of specific functional enzymes that interact with acetylation groups on the N-terminal lysine of histone proteins further regulate gene transcription through structural changes at the chromatin level. HDACs involved in the growth and development of various plants, and induced by plant hormones to regulate the internal environment of plants to resist stress, at the same time affect the accumulation of some secondary metabolites. However, the role of SmHDACs on the accumulation of salvianolic acid in S. miltiorrhiza remains unclear. In this study, 16 SmHDACs genes were identified from the high-quality S. miltiorrhiza genome, their physicochemical properties were predicted. In phylogenetic trees co-constructed with HDACs proteins from other plants, SmHDACs was divided into three subfamilies, each with similar motif and conserved domain composition. The distribution of the three subfamilies is similar to that of dicotyledonous plants. Chromosome localization analysis showed that SmHDACs genes were randomly located. Cis-acting element analysis predicted that SmHDACs gene expression may be related to and induced by various phytohormones, such as MeJA and ABA. By combining the expression pattern and co-expression network induced by phytohormones, we speculate that SmHDACs may further influence the synthesis of salvianolic acid, and identified SmHDA5, a potential functional gene, then speculate its downstream target based on the co-expression network. In summary, we analyzed the SmHDACs gene family of S. miltiorrhiza and screened out the potential functional gene SmHDA5. From the perspective of epigenetics, we proposed the molecular mechanism of plant hormone promoting salvianolic acid synthesis, which filled the gap in the subdivision of histone deacetylase in S. miltiorrhiza research, provided a theoretical basis for the culture and transformation of S. miltiorrhiza germplasm resources. Full article
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