Natural products from resurrection plants: Potential for medical applications

Biotechnology Advances

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1091-1101

  Gechev, Tsanko S ^a,b,c   Hille, Jacques ^d   Woerdenbag, Herman J ^d   Benina, Maria ^b   Mehterov, Nikolay ^e   Toneva, Valentina ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^c   Mueller Roeber, Bernd ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies   (Bulgaria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Anticancer; Antifungal; Antiviral; Natural product; Resurrection plant; Secondary metabolite; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; DRIERS (MATERIALS); DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOBILE SECURITY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANTI-FUNGAL; ANTIBACTERIAL; ANTICANCER; ANTIVIRAL; NATURAL PRODUCTS; RESURRECTION PLANT; SECONDARY METABOLITES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

METABOLITES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; SELAGINELLA PILIFERA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CRATEROSTIGMA; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL LINE; CRATEROSTIGMA; HUMANS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICE; PLANT EXTRACTS;

EID: 84926257677     PISSN: 07349750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2014.03.005     Document Type: Review

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