Cannabis sativa: origin and history, glandular trichome development, and cannabinoid biosynthesis

Z Xie, Y Mi, L Kong, M Gao, S Chen… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Is Cannabis a boon or bane? Cannabis sativa has long been a versatile crop for fiber
extraction (industrial hemp), traditional Chinese medicine (hemp seeds), and recreational …

Haplotype-phased genome unveils the butylphthalide biosynthesis and homoploid hybrid origin of Ligusticum chuanxiong

B Nie, X Chen, Z Hou, M Guo, C Li, W Sun, J Ji… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Butylphthalide is one of the first-line drugs for ischemic stroke therapy, while no biosynthetic
enzyme for butylphthalide has been reported. Here, we present a haplotype-resolved …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform for natural product biosynthesis

D Golubova, C Tansley, H Su, NJ Patron - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Nicotiana benthamiana is a model plant, widely used for research. The susceptibility of
young plants to Agrobacterium tumefaciens has been utilised for transient gene expression …

Cannabinoids function in defense against chewing herbivores in Cannabis sativa L.

GM Stack, SI Snyder, JA Toth, MA Quade… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the decades since the first cannabinoids were identified by scientists, research has
focused almost exclusively on the function and capacity of cannabinoids as medicines and …

Dual cytoplasmic‐peroxisomal compartmentalization engineering and multiple metabolic engineering strategies for high yield non‐psychoactive cannabinoid in …

Y Ding, Y Ning, D Xin, Y Fu - Biotechnology Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
CBG (Cannabigerol), a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid, has garnered attention due to its
extensive antimicrobial and anti‐inflammatory properties. However, the natural content of …

The putative cannabinoid-secreting trichome of Trema micrantha (L.) Blume (Cannabaceae)

SP Teixeira, IC Nascimento, MP Grejo, VG Leite… - Protoplasma, 2024 - Springer
Trema, a genus of the popularly known Cannabaceae, has recently been the subject of
cannabinoid bioprospection. T. micrantha is a tree with pharmacological potential widely …

Recurrent evolutionary switches of mitochondrial cytochrome c maturation systems in Archaeplastida

H Li, S Akella, C Engstler, JJ Omini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mitochondrial cytochrome c maturation (CCM) requires heme attachment via distinct
pathways termed systems I and III. The mosaic distribution of these systems in …

Engineering cannabinoid production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

C Schmidt, M Aras, O Kayser - Biotechnology Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phytocannabinoids are natural products with highly interesting pharmacological properties
mainly produced by plants. The production of cannabinoids in a heterologous host system …

Exploring the evolvability of plant specialized metabolism: uniqueness out of uniformity and uniqueness behind uniformity

E Ono, J Murata - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The huge structural diversity exhibited by plant specialized metabolites has primarily been
considered to result from the catalytic specificity of their biosynthetic enzymes. Accordingly …

Integrated omics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae CENPK2-1C reveals pleiotropic drug resistance and lipidomic adaptations to cannabidiol

EN Jordan, R Shirali Hossein Zade, S Pillay… - npj systems biology …, 2024 - nature.com
Yeast metabolism can be engineered to produce xenobiotic compounds, such as
cannabinoids, the principal isoprenoids of the plant Cannabis sativa, through heterologous …