Zakir Husain, Sana Khan, Aqib Sarfraz, Zafar Iqbal, Ashish Chandran, Kahkashan Khatoon, Gazala Parween, Farah Deeba, Shama Afroz, Feroz Khan, Ratnasekhar Ch, Laiq Ur Rahman
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Metabolic-Engineering Approach to Enhance Vanillin and Phenolic Compounds in Ocimum Sanctum (CIM-Angana) via VpVAN Overexpression.
Transgenic Ocimum sanctum plants were engineered to produce vanillin by overexpressing the VpVAN gene using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Positive transformants developed shoots within 4-5 weeks and were transferred to a root induction medium and four independent transformants with no observed adverse effects were kept for anlysis. Quantitative RT-PCR indicated significantly higher VpVAN expression in transgenic lines AG_3 and AG_1, impacting the phenylpropanoid pathway and phenolic compound accumulation. Molecular docking studies indicated ferulic acid's higher binding affinity to vanillin synthase than eugenol. LC-MS/MS analysis revealed a marked increase in vanillin production in transgenic lines compared to wild type, with AG_3 exhibiting the highest vanillin content (1.98 ± 0.0047 mg/g extract) and AG_1 following (1.49 ± 0.0047 mg/g extract). AG_3 also showed elevated levels of benzoic acid, 4-hydroxy benzyl alcohol, and ferulic acid. This study highlights the potential of metabolic engineering in O. sanctum for enhanced vanillin production, suggesting pathways for large-scale production of natural vanillin and other valuable compounds in transgenic plants.
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Physiologia Plantarum is an international journal committed to publishing the best full-length original research papers that advance our understanding of primary mechanisms of plant development, growth and productivity as well as plant interactions with the biotic and abiotic environment. All organisational levels of experimental plant biology – from molecular and cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics to ecophysiology and global change biology – fall within the scope of the journal. The content is distributed between 5 main subject areas supervised by Subject Editors specialised in the respective domain: (1) biochemistry and metabolism, (2) ecophysiology, stress and adaptation, (3) uptake, transport and assimilation, (4) development, growth and differentiation, (5) photobiology and photosynthesis.