FEBS Letters
Volume 584, Issue 14 , Pages 2965-2973, 16 July 2010

Plant volatile terpenoid metabolism: Biosynthetic genes, transcriptional regulation and subcellular compartmentation

Edited by Ulf-Ingo Flügge

Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, P.O. CIMAP, Lucknow 226015, India

Received 30 March 2010; received in revised form 20 May 2010; accepted 21 May 2010. published online 28 May 2010.

Abstract 

Volatile terpenoids released from different plant parts play crucial roles in pollinator attraction, plant defense, and interaction with the surrounding environment. Two distinct pathways localized in different subcellular compartments are responsible for the biosynthesis of these compounds. Recent advances in the characterization of genes and enzymes responsible for substrate and end product biosynthesis as well as efforts in metabolic engineering have revealed new aspects of volatile terpenoid biosynthesis. This review summarizes recent progress in the characterization of volatile terpenoid biosynthetic genes, their spatio-temporal expression patterns and subcellular localization of corresponding proteins. In addition, recent information obtained from metabolic engineering is discussed.

Keywords: Volatile terpenoids, Terpene synthase, Subcellular localization, Spatio-temporal expression, Metabolic engineering

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PII: S0014-5793(10)00449-7

doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2010.05.045

FEBS Letters
Volume 584, Issue 14 , Pages 2965-2973, 16 July 2010

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