CRISPR-Cas9–Mediated Engineering of Medicinal Plants for Enhanced Phytochemical Production: Advances in Biotechnology and Therapeutic Applications
The emergence of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing has now broadened the scope of precise modification of genes that play a role in biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants. Medicinal plants generate a variety of bioactive compounds, such as alkaloids, terpenoids, phenylpropanoids, and glucosinolates, and the...