Plant Secondary Metabolic Engineering
Plants are a valuable source of a wide range of secondary metabolites which are used as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, flavours, fragrances, colours, biopesticides and food additives. There are a number of plant cell cultures producing a higher amount of secondary metabolites than in intact plants. However, there are still problems in the production of metabolites by cell cultures resulting from the instability of cell lines, low yields, slow growth and scale-up problem.