Unlocking secrets of nature's chemists: Potential of CRISPR/Cas-based tools in plant metabolic engineering for customized nutraceutical and medicinal profiles

RM Shelake, AM Jadhav, PB Bhosale… - Plant Physiology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plant species have evolved diverse metabolic pathways to effectively respond to internal
and external signals throughout their life cycle, allowing adaptation to their sessile and …

Improving the Traits of Perilla frutescens (L.) Britt Using Gene Editing Technology

S Karthik, J Chae, SJ Han, JH Kim, HJ Kim, YS Chung… - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Plant breeding has evolved significantly over time with the development of transformation
and genome editing techniques. These new strategies help to improve desirable traits in …

Chromosome‐scale Salvia hispanica L. (Chia) genome assembly reveals rampant Salvia interspecies introgression

J Brose, JP Hamilton, N Schlecht, D Zhao… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Salvia hispanica L.(Chia), a member of the Lamiaceae, is an economically
important crop in Mesoamerica, with health benefits associated with its seed fatty acid …

Perilla frutescens L.: a dynamic food crop worthy of future challenges

C Aochen, A Kumar, S Jaiswal, K Puro… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Perilla (Perilla frutescens L.) is an annual aromatic plant of the Lamiaceae family cultivated
and widely consumed in most Asian countries. The cultivated tetraploid species P …

Insights into structure, codon usage, repeats, and RNA editing of the complete mitochondrial genome of Perilla frutescens (Lamiaceae)

R Wang, Y Luo, Z Lan, D Qiu - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Perilla frutescens (L.) Britton, a member of the Lamiaceae family, stands out as a
versatile plant highly valued for its unique aroma and medicinal properties. Additionally, P …

Development of an SNP marker set for marker-assisted backcrossing using genotyping-by-sequencing in tetraploid perilla

JE Oh, JE Kim, J Kim, MH Lee, K Lee, TH Kim… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2023 - Springer
High-quality molecular markers are essential for marker-assisted selection to accelerate
breeding progress. Compared with diploid species, recently diverged polyploid crop species …

DEGAP: Dynamic elongation of a genome assembly path

Y Huang, Z Wang, MA Schmidt, H Su… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Genome assembly remains to be a major task in genomic research. Despite the
development over the past decades of different assembly software programs and algorithms …

Comparative Metabolomics Analysis of Different Perilla Varieties Provides Insights into Variation in Seed Metabolite Profiles and Antioxidant Activities

SSK Dossou, Q Deng, F Li, N Jiang, R Zhou, L Wang… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Perilla seeds are essential functional foods and key ingredients in traditional medicine.
Herein, we investigated the variation in phytochemical profiles and antioxidant activities of …

Assessing the potential for genome-assisted breeding in red perilla using quantitative trait locus analysis and genomic prediction

S Kinoshita, K Sakurai, K Hamazaki, T Tsusaka… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Red perilla is an important medicinal plant used in Kampo medicine. The development of
elite varieties of this species is urgently required. Medicinal compounds are generally …

Heredity and Regulation of a Potential Commercial Crop: Perilla frutescens

Q Shen, D Sun, W Duan, ZM Yang - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Perilla (Perilla frutescens L.) is an annual herbaceous plant in the family Labiatae, which is
mainly distributed in East Asian countries, such as China, Japan, and Korea, as well as …