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Published on: October 4, 2019
My Way: Noncanonical Biosynthesis Pathways for Plant Volatiles
Pulu Sun1, Robert C Schuurink2, Jean-Claude Caissard3
1Université de Lyon, UJM-Saint-Étienne, CNRS, BVpam FRE 3727, F-42023 Saint-Étienne, France; Department of Plant Physiology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Plant volatiles are crucial for various interactions with other organisms and their surrounding environment. A large number of these volatiles belong to the terpenoid and benzenoid/phenylpropanoid classes, which have long been considered to be exclusively synthesized from a few canonical pathways. However, several alternative pathways producing these plant volatiles have been discovered recently. This review summarizes the current knowledge about new pathways for these two major groups of plant volatiles, which open new perspectives for applications in metabolic engineering.
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