This review outlines the recent progress during the last 25 years concerning the
biotransformation of exogenous substrates by plant cultured cells. The plant cultured cells …

Various applications of biotechnological methods for the production of volatile compounds
useful to the food and pharmaceutical industries are discussed. The yields obtained from …

Plants are valuable sources of a variety of chemicals including drugs, flavours, pigments and
agrochemicals. Some of the biochemical reactions occurring in plant cells are complex and …

With tens of thousands of characterized members, terpenoids constitute the largest class of
natural compounds that are synthesized by all living organisms. Several terpenoids play …

Background: Plant biofactories are biotechnological platforms based on plant cell and organ
cultures used for the production of pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals, although to …

The biotransformation of geraniol, nerol and citral by Aspergillus niger was studied. A
comparison was made between submerged liquid, sporulated surface cultures and spore …

The chiral building block (2R, 5R)-dihydrocarvone can be synthesized by asymmetric
reduction of the Cdouble bondC bond of (R)-carvone using ene-reductases. However …

On biotransformation of bisphenol A by cultured suspension cells of Eucalyptus perriniana,
three new biotransformation products, 2, 2-bis (4-β-d-glucopyranosyloxyphenyl) propane, 2 …

Monoterpenoids (3 and 4), sesquiterpenoid (2), diterpenoid (1) and four phenethyl
glucosides (5–8), together with fourteen known compounds, were isolated from the whole …

Within the framework of a large-scale screening carried out on 146 yeasts of environmental
origin, 16 strains (11% of the total) exhibited the ability to biotransform (4S)-(+)-carvone …